canplay

The canplay event is fired when the user agent can play the media, but estimates that not enough data has been loaded to play the media up to its end without having to stop for further buffering of content.

General info

Specification

HTML5 media

Interface

Event

Bubbles

No

Cancelable

No

Target

Element

Default Action

None.

Properties

Property	Type	Description
target Read only	EventTarget	The event target (the topmost target in the DOM tree).
type Read only	DOMString	The type of event.
bubbles Read only	Boolean	Whether the event normally bubbles or not
cancelable Read only	Boolean	Whether the event is cancellable or not?

Related Events

• playing
• waiting
• seeking
• seeked
• ended
• loadedmetadata
• loadeddata
• canplay
• canplaythrough
• durationchange
• timeupdate
• play
• pause
• ratechange
• volumechange
• suspend
• emptied
• stalled