XMLHttpRequest: abort event
The abort
event is fired when a request has been aborted, for example because the program called XMLHttpRequest.abort()
.
Bubbles | No |
---|---|
Cancelable | No |
Interface | ProgressEvent |
Event handler property | onabort |
Examples
Live example
HTML
<div class="controls"> <input class="xhr success" type="button" name="xhr" value="Click to start XHR (success)" /> <input class="xhr error" type="button" name="xhr" value="Click to start XHR (error)" /> <input class="xhr abort" type="button" name="xhr" value="Click to start XHR (abort)" /> </div> <textarea readonly class="event-log"></textarea>
JS
const xhrButtonSuccess = document.querySelector('.xhr.success'); const xhrButtonError = document.querySelector('.xhr.error'); const xhrButtonAbort = document.querySelector('.xhr.abort'); const log = document.querySelector('.event-log'); function handleEvent(e) { log.textContent = log.textContent + `${e.type}: ${e.loaded} bytes transferred\n`; } function addListeners(xhr) { xhr.addEventListener('loadstart', handleEvent); xhr.addEventListener('load', handleEvent); xhr.addEventListener('loadend', handleEvent); xhr.addEventListener('progress', handleEvent); xhr.addEventListener('error', handleEvent); xhr.addEventListener('abort', handleEvent); } function runXHR(url) { log.textContent = ''; const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); addListeners(xhr); xhr.open("GET", url); xhr.send(); return xhr; } xhrButtonSuccess.addEventListener('click', () => { runXHR('dgszyjnxcaipwzy.jpg'); }); xhrButtonError.addEventListener('click', () => { runXHR('https://somewhere.org/i-dont-exist'); }); xhrButtonAbort.addEventListener('click', () => { runXHR('dgszyjnxcaipwzy.jpg').abort(); });
Result
Specifications
Browser compatibility
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
abort_event |
1 |
12 |
3.5 |
10 |
≤12.1 |
≤4 |
≤37 |
18 |
4 |
≤12.1 |
≤3 |
1.0 |
See also
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/abort_event