# Map — Map-like browser APIs

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

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

Just like Map, entries can be iterated in the same order that they were added to the object. Map-like objects and Map also have properties and methods that share the same name and behavior. However unlike Map they only allow specific predefined types for the keys and values of each entry.

The allowed types are set in the specification IDL definition. For example, {{domxref("RTCStatsReport")}} is a Map-like object that must use strings for keys and objects for values. This is defined in the specification IDL below

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

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

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

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

{{domxref("AudioParamMap")}} {{domxref("CSSFontFeatureValuesMap")}} {{domxref("EventCounts")}} {{domxref("KeyboardLayoutMap")}} {{domxref("MIDIInputMap")}} {{domxref("MIDIOutputMap")}} {{domxref("RTCStatsReport")}}

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