Animation: cancel event
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2020.
Thecancel event of theAnimation interface is fired when theAnimation.cancel() method is called or when the animation enters the"idle" play state from another state, such as when the animation is removed from an element before it finishes playing.
Note:Creating a new animation that is initially idle does not trigger acancel event on the new animation.
Syntax
Use the event name in methods likeaddEventListener(), or set an event handler property.
addEventListener("cancel", (event) => { })oncancel = (event) => { }Event type
AnAnimationPlaybackEvent. Inherits fromEvent.
Event properties
In addition to the properties listed below, properties from the parent interface,Event, are available.
AnimationPlaybackEvent.currentTimeRead onlyThe current time of the animation that generated the event.
AnimationPlaybackEvent.timelineTimeRead onlyThe time value of the timeline of the animation that generated the event.
Examples
If this animation is canceled, remove its element.
animation.oncancel = (event) => { animation.effect.target.remove();};Specifications
| Specification |
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| Web Animations # dom-animation-oncancel |
| Web Animations # cancel-event |