index.md

---

title: Accelerometer.z
slug: Web/API/Accelerometer/z
page-type: web-api-instance-property
status:
  - experimental
browser-compat: api.Accelerometer.z

---

{{APIRef("Sensor API")}}{{SeeCompatTable}}

The z read-only property of the {{domxref("Accelerometer")}} interface returns a number specifying the acceleration of the device along its z-axis.

Value

A {{jsxref('Number')}}.

Examples

Acceleration is typically read in the {{domxref('Sensor.reading_event', 'reading')}} event callback. In the example below this occurs sixty times a second.

const accelerometer = new Accelerometer({ frequency: 60 });

accelerometer.addEventListener("reading", (e) => {
  console.log(`Acceleration along the X-axis ${accelerometer.x}`);
  console.log(`Acceleration along the Y-axis ${accelerometer.y}`);
  console.log(`Acceleration along the Z-axis ${accelerometer.z}`);
});
accelerometer.start();

Specifications

{{Specifications}}

Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}