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EventSource: error event

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨January 2020⁩.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The error event of the EventSource API is fired when a connection with an event source fails to be opened.

This event is not cancelable and does not bubble.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

addEventListener("error", (event) => { })

onerror = (event) => { }

Event type

A generic Event.

Examples

const evtSource = new EventSource("sse.php");

// addEventListener version
evtSource.addEventListener("error", (e) => {
  console.log("An error occurred while attempting to connect.");
});

// onerror version
evtSource.onerror = (e) => {
  console.log("An error occurred while attempting to connect.");
};

Specifications

Specification
HTML> # event-error>
HTML> # handler-eventsource-onerror>

Browser compatibility