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FileReader: error property

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.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The error read-only property of the FileReader interface returns the error that occurred while reading the file.

A DOMException containing the relevant error.

Specification
File API> # dom-filereader-error>

	Desktop					Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`error`	6	12	3.6 ["Before Firefox 13, the `error` property returned a `FileError` object.", "From Firefox 13 to Firefox 58, the `error` property returned a `DOMError` object.", "From Firefox 58, the `error` property returns a `DOMException` object."]	11	6 The `error` property returns a `DOMError` object.	18	32 ["From Firefox 32 to Firefox 58, the `error` property returned a `DOMError` object.", "From Firefox 58, the `error` property returns a `DOMException` object."]	11	6 The `error` property returns a `DOMError` object.	1.0	3	6 The `error` property returns a `DOMError` object.