Credential

Baseline Widely available *

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨September 2019⁩.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

Secure context: This feature is available only insecure contexts (HTTPS), in some or allsupporting browsers.

TheCredential interface of theCredential Management API provides information about an entity (usually a user) normally as a prerequisite to a trust decision.

Credential objects may be of the following types:

Instance properties

Credential.idRead only: Returns a string containing the credential's identifier. This might be any one of a GUID, username, or email address.
Credential.typeRead only: Returns a string containing the credential's type. Valid values arepassword,federated,public-key,identity andotp. (ForPasswordCredential,FederatedCredential,PublicKeyCredential,IdentityCredential andOTPCredential)

Static methods

Credential.isConditionalMediationAvailable()Experimental: Returns a Promise which always resolves tofalse. Subclasses may override this value.

Examples

const pwdCredential = new PasswordCredential({  id: "example-username", // Username/ID  name: "Carina Anand", // Display name  password: "correct horse battery staple", // Password});console.assert(pwdCredential.type === "password");