HTMLMediaElement: abort event
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
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The abort event is fired when the resource was not fully loaded, but not as the result of an error.
This event is not cancelable and does not bubble.
Syntax
Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.
js
addEventListener("abort", (event) => {});
onabort = (event) => {};
Event type
A generic Event.
Examples
js
const video = document.querySelector("video");
const videoSrc = "https://example.org/path/to/video.webm";
video.addEventListener("abort", () => {
console.log(`Abort loading: ${videoSrc}`);
});
const source = document.createElement("source");
source.setAttribute("src", videoSrc);
source.setAttribute("type", "video/webm");
video.appendChild(source);
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML # event-media-abort |
| HTML # handler-onabort |