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Provides a way to send messages to the Microsoft Visual Studio or client console.
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Syntax
var myConsole = window.console;
DOM Information
Inheritance Hierarchy
The console does not inherit from any class or interface.
Members
The console object has these types of members:
- Methods
Methods
The console object has these methods.
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| assert | Sends a message to the console if the expression provided evaluates to false. The message text color is red and it is prefaced by an error icon. |
| clear | Clears messages from the console. |
| count | Create an incrementable counter that prints its value to the console. Use different countTitle parameters to create different counters. |
| debug | An alias of console.log. |
| dir | Prints the properties of an object to the console. |
| dirxml | Logs an XML node object to the console. |
| error | Sends an error "message" to the console. The message text color is red and it is prefaced by an error icon. |
| group | Begins a collapsible group of console output. Initially displays expanded. |
| groupCollapsed | Begins a collapsible group of console output. Initially displays collapsed. |
| groupEnd | Ends the grouping started with a group or groupCollapsed method. |
| info | Sends an informational "message" to the console. The message is prefaced by an information icon. |
| log | Sends a log "message" to the console. The message is prefaced by the string "LOG". |
| msIsIndependentlyComposed | Retrieves a Boolean value indicating whether the element is independently composed. |
| profile | Starts recording profile information under the optional title provided. This command is equivalent to clicking the Start profiling button on the F12 tools Profile tab. |
| profileEnd | Stops recording profile information under the last report title. |
| time | Starts a timer. If you do not specify a name parameter, the name "default" will be used. |
| timeEnd | Ends a timer that was set using console.time() and logs the elapsed time to the console. If you do not specify a name parameter, the name "default" will be used. |
| trace | Logs a stack trace to the console. |
| warn | Sends a warning message to the console. The message is prefaced by the warning icon. |