Error: fileName

Non-standard: This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future.

The fileName data property of an Error instance contains the path to the file that raised this error.

Value

A string.

Property attributes of Error: fileName
Writable yes
Enumerable no
Configurable yes

Description

This non-standard property contains the path to the file that raised this error. If called from a debugger context, the Firefox Developer Tools for example, "debugger eval code" is returned.

Examples

Using fileName

js
const e = new Error("Could not parse input");
throw e;
// e.fileName could look like "file:///C:/example.html"

Specifications

Not part of any standard.

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

See also