---
title: Value is null
type: snippet
language: javascript
tags: [type]
cover: broken-screen
dateModified: 2020-10-20T23:02:01+03:00
---

Checks if the specified value is `null`.

- Use the strict equality operator to check if the value of `val` is equal to `null`.

```js
const isNull = val => val === null;
```

```js
isNull(null); // true
```