# Set — Set-like browser APIs

> Browser Set-like objects (or "setlike objects") are Web API interfaces that behave in many ways like a Set.

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Browser Set-like objects (or "setlike objects") are Web API interfaces that behave in many ways like a Set.

Just like Set, elements can be iterated in the same order that they were added to the object. Set-like objects and Set also have properties and methods that share the same name and behavior. However unlike Set they only allow a specific predefined type for each entry.

The allowed types are set in the specification IDL definition. For example, {{domxref("GPUSupportedFeatures")}} is a Set-like object that must use strings as the key/value. This is defined in the specification IDL below

Set-like objects are either read-only or read-writable (see the readonly keyword in the IDL above).

Read-only Set-like objects have the property {{jsxref("Set/size", "size")}}, and the methods: {{jsxref("Set/entries", "entries()")}}, {{jsxref("Set/forEach", "forEach()")}}, {{jsxref("Set/has", "has()")}}, {{jsxref("Set/keys", "keys()")}}, {{jsxref("Set/values", "values()")}}, and [Symbol.iterator](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Set/Symbol.iterator). Writeable Set-like objects additionally have the methods: {{jsxref("Set/clear", "clear()")}}, {{jsxref("Set/delete", "delete()")}}, and {{jsxref("Set/add", "add()")}}.

The methods and properties have the same behavior as the equivalent entities in Set, except for the restriction on the types of the entry.

The following are examples of read-only Set-like browser objects

{{domxref("GPUSupportedFeatures")}} {{domxref("XRAnchorSet")}}

The following are examples of writable Set-like browser objects

{{domxref("CustomStateSet")}} {{domxref("FontFaceSet")}} {{domxref("Highlight")}} {{domxref("ViewTransitionTypeSet")}}

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