HTMLDialogElement: close event

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2022.

The close event is fired on an HTMLDialogElement object when the

it represents has been closed.

This event is not cancelable and does not bubble.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

js
addEventListener("close", (event) => { })

onclose = (event) => { }

Event type

A generic Event.

Examples

Live example

HTML

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Or hit the Esc key

JavaScript

js
const result = document.querySelector(".result");

const dialog = document.querySelector(".example-dialog");
dialog.addEventListener("close", (event) => {
  result.textContent = "dialog was closed";
});

const openDialog = document.querySelector(".open-dialog");
openDialog.addEventListener("click", () => {
  dialog.showModal();
  result.textContent = "";
});

const closeButton = document.querySelector(".close");
closeButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
  dialog.close();
});

Result

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# event-close

Browser compatibility

See also

  • HTML element
  • The Event interface