# How to check if a JavaScript array contains a specific value 🤔

#### Given a JavaScript matrix, how could we verify if it contains a specific element?

If this is possible and is very easy to do in Javascript, for this we will use the includes () method

#### method includes()

Given a matrix, the includes () method determines if a specific element is found in that matrix, in the case that this element is found to be true and in the case that it is not, it would return false.

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For example:

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