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.
Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.
addEventListener("abort", (event) => { })
onabort = (event) => { }
A generic Event.
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);
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # event-media-abort> |
| HTML> # handler-onabort> |
| 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 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/abort_event