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HTMLMediaElement: currentSrc 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.

The HTMLMediaElement.currentSrc property contains the absolute URL of the chosen media resource. This could happen, for example, if the web server selects a media file based on the resolution of the user's display. The value is an empty string if the networkState property is EMPTY.

Value

A string containing the absolute URL of the chosen media source; this may be an empty string if networkState is EMPTY; otherwise, it will be one of the resources listed by the HTMLSourceElement contained within the media element, or the value or src if no <source> element is provided.

Examples

const obj = document.createElement("video");
console.log(obj.currentSrc); // ""

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
currentSrc 3 12 3.5 ≤12.1 3.1 18 4 ≤12.1 3 1.0 4.4 3

See also

  • HTMLMediaElement: Interface used to define the HTMLMediaElement.currentSrc property

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