Methods

This section describes the methods associated with the Console Debugging API.

In this section

Topic	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 developer 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.
timeStamp	Outputs a timestamp to the Console based on how long the current browser tab has been open. If used while a UI Responsiveness profiling session is recording, it will also create a user mark in the session timeline similar to a performance.mark.
trace	Logs a stack trace to the console.
warn	Sends a warning message to the console. The message is prefaced by the warning icon.