HTMLMediaElement: error 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.
The error event is fired when the resource could not be loaded due to an error (for example, a network connectivity problem).
This event is not cancelable and does not bubble.
Syntax
Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.
js
addEventListener("error", (event) => {});
onerror = (event) => {};
Event type
A generic Event.
Examples
js
const video = document.querySelector("video");
const videoSrc = "https://path/to/video.webm";
video.addEventListener("error", () => {
console.error(`Error loading: ${videoSrc}`);
});
video.setAttribute("src", videoSrc);
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML # event-media-error |
| HTML # handler-window-onmessageerror |
Browser compatibility
| desktop | mobile | |||||||||||
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error event | ||||||||||||