HTMLMediaElement: stalled 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.

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The stalled event is fired when the user agent is trying to fetch media data, but data is unexpectedly not forthcoming.

This event is not cancelable and does not bubble.

Syntax

Use the event name in addEventListener():

js
addEventListener("stalled", (event) => { })

Alternatively, assign to the event handler property of the interface:

js
onstalled = (event) => { }

Event type

A generic Event.

Examples

These examples add an event listener for the HTMLMediaElement's stalled event, then post a message when that event handler has reacted to the event firing.

Using addEventListener():

js
const video = document.querySelector("video");

video.addEventListener("stalled", (event) => {
  console.log("Failed to fetch data, but trying.");
});

Using the onstalled event handler property (but note that this replaces other event listeners added using onstalled, if any):

js
const video = document.querySelector("video");

video.onstalled = (event) => {
  console.log("Failed to fetch data, but trying.");
};

Specifications

Specification
HTML>
# event-media-stalled>
HTML>
# handler-onstalled>

Browser compatibility

See also