| Type | String |
|---|---|
| Mandatory | No |
The description member is a string in which developers can explain what the application does. description is directionality-capable, which means it can be displayed left to right or right to left based on the values of the dir and lang manifest members.
Examples
Simple description in left-to-right language:
"description": "Awesome application that will help you achieve your dreams."
description in Arabic, which will be displayed right-to-left:
"dir": "rtl", "lang": "ar", "description": ".تطبيق رائع سيساعدك على تحقيق أحلامك"
Specification
| Specification | Status | Comment | Feedback |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Web App Manifest |
Working Draft |
Initial definition. |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
description | Chrome ? | Edge ? | Firefox ? | IE ? | Opera ? | Safari ? | WebView Android ? | Chrome Android ? | Firefox Android ? | Opera Android ? | Safari iOS ? | Samsung Internet Android ? |
Legend
- Compatibility unknown
- Compatibility unknown
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.