HTMLMediaElement: progress 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.

The progress event is fired periodically as the browser loads a resource.

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("progress", (event) => {});

onprogress = (event) => {};

Event type

A generic Event.

Examples

Live example

HTML

html
<div class="example">
  <button type="button">Load video</button>
  <video controls width="250"></video>

  <div class="event-log">
    <label for="eventLog">Event log:</label>
    <textarea readonly class="event-log-contents" id="eventLog"></textarea>
  </div>
</div>

JavaScript

js
const loadVideo = document.querySelector("button");
const video = document.querySelector("video");
const eventLog = document.querySelector(".event-log-contents");
let source = null;

function handleEvent(event) {
  eventLog.textContent += `${event.type}\n`;
}

video.addEventListener("loadstart", handleEvent);
video.addEventListener("progress", handleEvent);
video.addEventListener("canplay", handleEvent);
video.addEventListener("canplaythrough", handleEvent);

loadVideo.addEventListener("click", () => {
  if (source) {
    document.location.reload();
  } else {
    loadVideo.textContent = "Reset example";
    source = document.createElement("source");
    source.setAttribute(
      "src",
      "https://mdn.github.io/learning-area/html/multimedia-and-embedding/video-and-audio-content/rabbit320.mp4",
    );
    source.setAttribute("type", "video/mp4");

    video.appendChild(source);
  }
});

Result

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# event-media-progress
HTML Standard
# handler-onprogress

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
progress event

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Full support
Full support

See also