This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The abort() method of the FileReader interface aborts the read operation. Upon return, the readyState will be DONE.
abort()
None.
None (undefined).
| Specification |
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| File API> # abort> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
abort |
6 | 12 | 3.6 | 11 | 6 | 18 | 32 | 11 | 6 | 1.0 | 3 | 6 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileReader/abort