Window: gamepadconnected event

The gamepadconnected event is fired when the browser detects that a gamepad has been connected or the first time a button/axis of the gamepad is used.

The event will not fire if disallowed by the document's gamepad Feature Policy.

Examples

window.addEventListener('gamepadconnected', event => {

    // All buttons and axes values can be accessed through
    event.gamepad;

});

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• gamepaddisconnected
• Using Gamepad API