HTMLMediaElement: progress event

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This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. Its been available across browsers since July 2015.

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The progress event is fired periodically as the browser loads a resource.

This event is not cancelable and does not bubble.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

addEventListener("progress", (event) => { })

onprogress = (event) => { }

Event type

A generic Event.

Examples

Live example

HTML

html

<div class="example">
  <button type="button">Load video</button>
  <video controls width="250"></video>

  <div class="event-log">
    <label for="eventLog">Event log:</label>
    <textarea readonly class="event-log-contents" id="eventLog"></textarea>
  </div>
</div>

.event-log-contents {
  width: 18rem;
  height: 5rem;
  border: 1px solid black;
  margin: 0.2rem;
  padding: 0.2rem;
}

.example {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-areas:
    "button log"
    "video  log";
}

button {
  grid-area: button;
  width: 10rem;
  margin: 0.5rem 0;
}

video {
  grid-area: video;
}

.event-log {
  grid-area: log;
}

.event-log > label {
  display: block;
}

JavaScript

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 += `${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://mdn.github.io/learning-area/html/multimedia-and-embedding/video-and-audio-content/rabbit320.mp4",
    );
    source.setAttribute("type", "video/mp4");

    video.appendChild(source);
  }
});