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.

Theabort 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 likeaddEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

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

Event type

A genericEvent.

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);