onLine property
Retrieves a value indicating whether the system is online.
Syntax
HRESULT value = object.get_onLine(* p);
Property values
Type: VARIANT_BOOL
VARIANT_TRUE (true)
System is online.
VARIANT_FALSE (false)
System is offline.
Standards information
- HTML5 A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML, Section 5.6.10
Remarks
In Windows Internet Explorer 8 and later, the IOmNavigator::onLine property returns true
if both of the following conditions are true:
- the system is able to communicate with the network
- the system is not in global offline mode (Users can modify the global offline state by choosing Work Offline on the File menu.)
If either of these conditions is false, the IOmNavigator::onLine property returns false
.
In Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 through Windows Internet Explorer 7, the IOmNavigator::onLine property indicates whether the system is in global offline mode. It does not indicate whether the system can communicate with the network.
IOmNavigator::onLine returns true
if the WWAHost.exe can contact the network, otherwise, it returns false
.
A Windows app using JavaScript uses event listeners (IEventTarget::addEventListener) to monitor online and offline events that fire when the state of the window object changes. The offline event fires when the IOmNavigator::onLine property changes from true
to false
. The online event fires when the IOmNavigator::onLine property changes from false
to true
.
See also
Reference
IEventTarget::addEventListener
Conceptual