The symbol data type is a primitive data type. They were introduced in ES6 and are completely unique and created using the Symbol() factory function which returns the Symbol.
Following is the code for JavaScript symbols −
Example
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /> <title>Document</title> <style> body { font-family: "Segoe UI", Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; } .result { font-size: 18; color: blueviolet; font-weight: 500; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>JavaScript symbols</h1> <div class="result"></div> <button class="Btn">CLICK HERE</button> <h3>Click on the above button to display and compare symbols</h3> <script> let BtnEle = document.querySelector(".Btn"); let resEle = document.querySelector(".result"); let sym1 = Symbol("test"); let sym2 = Symbol("test"); BtnEle.addEventListener("click", () => { console.log(sym1); console.log(sym2); if (sym1 !== sym2) { resEle.innerHTML = "The symbols are not equal"; } }); </script> </body> </html>
Output
On clicking the ‘CLICK HERE’ button and inspecting the output in console −