AnimationEvent

The AnimationEvent interface represents events providing information related to animations.

Properties

Also inherits properties from its parent Event.

AnimationEvent.animationName Read only

Is a DOMString containing the value of the animation-name CSS property associated with the transition.

AnimationEvent.elapsedTime Read only

Is a float giving the amount of time the animation has been running, in seconds, when this event fired, excluding any time the animation was paused. For an "animationstart" event, elapsedTime is 0.0 unless there was a negative value for animation-delay, in which case the event will be fired with elapsedTime containing (-1 * delay).

AnimationEvent.pseudoElement Read only

Is a DOMString, starting with '::', containing the name of the pseudo-element the animation runs on. If the animation doesn't run on a pseudo-element but on the element, an empty string: ''.

Constructor

AnimationEvent()

Creates an AnimationEvent event with the given parameters.

Methods

Also inherits methods from its parent Event.

AnimationEvent.initAnimationEvent()

Initializes a AnimationEvent created using the deprecated Document.createEvent("AnimationEvent") method.

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
CSS Animations The definition of 'AnimationEvent' in that specification.	Working Draft	Initial definition.

Browser compatibility

See also

• Using CSS animations
• Animation-related CSS properties and at-rules: animation, animation-delay, animation-direction, animation-duration, animation-fill-mode, animation-iteration-count, animation-name, animation-play-state, animation-timing-function, @keyframes.