HTMLMediaElement: loadstart event
The loadstart
event is fired when the browser has started to load a resource.
Bubbles | No |
---|---|
Cancelable | No |
Interface | Event |
Event handler property | onloadstart |
Examples
Live example
HTML
<div class="example"> <button type="button">Load video</button> <video controls width="250"></video> <div class="event-log"> <label>Event log:</label> <textarea readonly class="event-log-contents"></textarea> </div> </div>
JS
const loadVideo = document.querySelector('button'); const video = document.querySelector('video'); const eventLog = document.querySelector('.event-log-contents'); let source = null; function handleEvent(event) { eventLog.textContent = eventLog.textContent + `${event.type}\n`; } video.addEventListener('loadstart', handleEvent); video.addEventListener('progress', handleEvent); video.addEventListener('canplay', handleEvent); video.addEventListener('canplaythrough', handleEvent); loadVideo.addEventListener('click', () => { if (source) { document.location.reload(); } else { loadVideo.textContent = "Reset example"; source = document.createElement('source'); source.setAttribute('src', 'https://interactive-examples.mdn.mozilla.net/media/examples/flower.webm'); source.setAttribute('type', 'video/webm'); video.appendChild(source); } });
Result
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML Standard (HTML) # event-media-loadstart |
Browser compatibility
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
loadstart_event |
1 |
12 |
Yes |
9 |
≤12.1 |
4 |
1 |
18 |
Yes |
≤12.1 |
3 |
1.0 |
See also
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/loadstart_event