Value

A MediaError object describing the most recent error to occur on the media element or null if no errors have occurred.

Examples

This example establishes a video element and adds an error handler to it; the error handler logs the details to console.

const videoElement = document.createElement("video");
videoElement.onerror = () => {
  console.error(
    `Error ${videoElement.error.code}; details: ${videoElement.error.message}`,
  );
};
videoElement.src = "https://example.com/bogusvideo.mp4";

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• HTMLMediaElement: Interface used to define the HTMLMediaElement.error property
• <audio> and <video>