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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.

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.

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

onabort = (event) => { }

Event type

A generic Event.

Examples

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

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
abort_event 3 12 9 ≤12.1 3.1 18 9 ≤12.1 3 1.0 4.4 3

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/abort_event