Worker.terminate

The terminate() method of the Worker interface immediately terminates the Worker. This does not offer the worker an opportunity to finish its operations; it is simply stopped at once.

Syntax

myWorker.terminate();

Parameters

None.

Returns

Void.

Example

The following code snippet shows creation of a Worker object using the Worker() constructor, which is then immediately terminated.

var myWorker = new Worker('worker.js');

myWorker.terminate();

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
WHATWG HTML Living Standard The definition of 'Worker.postMessage()' in that specification.	Living Standard	No change from Web Workers.
Web Workers The definition of 'Worker.postMessage()' in that specification.	Editor's Draft	Initial definition.

Browser compatibility

See also

The Worker interface it belongs to.