{"json_modified": "2016-05-20T12:40:23.875666", "uuid": "dac57cd0-72d8-4fa1-b284-a2283a54f77b", "title": "RTCPeerConnection.ondatachannel", "url": "/en-US/docs/Web/API/RTCPeerConnection/ondatachannel", "tags": ["Event Handler", "Property", "WebRTC", "Reference", "RTCPeerConnection", "Experimental", "ondatachannel"], "translations": [], "modified": "2016-05-20T12:40:24", "label": "RTCPeerConnection.ondatachannel", "localization_tags": [], "locale": "en-US", "id": 124479, "last_edit": "2016-05-20T12:40:19", "summary": "The <code><strong>RTCPeerConnection.ondatachannel</strong></code> property is an <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventHandler\" title=\"A possible way to get notified of Events of a particular type (such as click) for a given object is to specify an&#xA0;event handler using:\"><code>EventHandler</code></a> which specifies a function which is called when the <code><a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/Events/datachannel\" title=\"/en-US/docs/Web/Events/datachannel\">datachannel</a></code> event occurs on an <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/RTCPeerConnection\" title=\"The RTCPeerConnection interface represents a WebRTC connection between the local computer and a remote peer. It provides methods to connect to a remote peer, maintain and monitor the connection, and close the connection once it's no longer needed.\"><code>RTCPeerConnection</code></a>. This event, of type <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/RTCDataChannelEvent\" title=\"The RTCDataChannelEvent interface represents events that occur&#xA0;while attaching a RTCDataChannel to a RTCPeerConnection. The only event sent with this interface is datachannel.\"><code>RTCDataChannelEvent</code></a>, is sent when an <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/RTCDataChannel\" title=\"The RTCDataChannel interface represents a bi-directional data channel between two peers of a connection.\"><code>RTCDataChannel</code></a> is added to the connection by the remote peer calling <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/RTCPeerConnection/createDataChannel\" title=\"Creates a new channel on the peer connection over which any sort of data may be transmitted. This can be useful for back-channel content such as images, file transfer, text chat, game update packets, and so forth.\"><code>createDataChannel()</code></a>.", "sections": [{"id": "Quick_Links", "title": null}, {"id": "Syntax", "title": "Syntax"}, {"id": "Value", "title": "Value"}, {"id": "Example", "title": "Example"}, {"id": "Specifications", "title": "Specifications"}, {"id": "Browser_compatibility", "title": "Browser compatibility"}, {"id": "See_also", "title": "See also"}], "slug": "Web/API/RTCPeerConnection/ondatachannel", "review_tags": []}