Name
Error.message — a human-readable error message
Availability
JavaScript 1.5; JScript 5.5; ECMAScript v3
Synopsis
error
.message
Description
The message
property of an Error object (or of an
instance of any subclass of Error) is intended to contain a
human-readable string that provides details about the error or
exception that occurred. If a message argument is passed to the
Error( )
constructor, this message becomes the
value of the message
property. If no message
argument is passed, an Error object inherits an
implementation-defined default value (which may be the empty string)
for this property.
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