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 Standard
# event-media-error
HTML Standard
# handler-window-onmessageerror

Browser compatibility

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See also