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Version: 3.14.1

Error.prototype.message

The message data property of an Error instance is a human-readable description of the error.

Value

A string corresponding to the value passed to the Error constructor as the first argument.

Description

This property contains a brief description of the error if one is available or has been set. The message property combined with the name property is used by the Error.prototype.toString() method to create a string representation of the Error.

By default, the message property is an empty string, but this behavior can be overridden for an instance by specifying a message as the first argument to the Error constructor.