This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The seeking read-only property of the HTMLMediaElement interface is a Boolean indicating whether the resource, the <audio> or <video>, is in the process of seeking to a new position.
A boolean value.
const el = document.querySelector("video");
console.log(el.seeking); // true or false
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-media-seeking-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
seeking |
3 | 12 | 3.5 | ≤12.1 | 3.1 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 3 |
seeking eventseeked eventHTMLVideoElementHTMLAudioElement
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/seeking