# Joystick:isDown

Available since LÖVE 0.9.0
It has been moved from love.joystick.isDown.

Checks if a button on the Joystick is pressed.

| There is a bug in version 0.9.0 which requires the button indices passed to Joystick:isDown to be 0-based instead of 1-based, for example button 1 would be 0 for this function. |

## Function

### Synopsis

    anyDown = Joystick:isDown( buttonN, ... )

### Arguments

`number buttonN`
  The index of a button to check.

### Returns

`boolean anyDown`
  True if any supplied button is down, false if not.

## See Also

- Joystick
- Joystick:getButtonCount
- love.joystickpressed
- love.joystickreleased

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Category:

- Functions