oncanplaythrough event

Article
05/02/2017

Occurs when playback to end is possible without requiring a stop for further buffering.

Syntax

HTML Attribute	<element oncanplaythrough = "handler(event)">
Event Property	object.oncanplaythrough = handler;
addEventListener Method	object.addEventListener("canplaythrough", handler, useCapture)

Event information

Synchronous	No
Bubbles	No
Cancelable	No

Event handler parameters

handler [in]
Type: function

Event handler object.

Standards information

HTML5 A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML, Section 4.8.9.12

Remarks

The oncanplaythrough event is raised when data is being fetched at a rate that would allow playback without interruption at the defaultPlaybackRate. If the autoplay attribute is specified, the video starts playing when oncanplaythrough is received.

This event occurs after oncanplay and before the first onprogress event is received.

To invoke this event, do one of the following:

Load a media resource.