abort

Summary

Fires when the user aborts the download.

Overview Table

<img id="imgLogo" title="Click to view larger image" src="example.com/small.jpg" alt="small logo"/>
<script type="text/javascript">
var myAddEvent=function(el, ev, fn){
    if(el.addEventListener){
        el.addEventListener(ev, fn, false);
    }else if(el.attachEvent){
        el.attachEvent('on'+ev,fn);
    }else{
        el['on'+ ev] = fn;
    }
};
var el=document.getElementById('imgLogo');
function imgAbortHandler(evt){
// code to recover from the abort method.
}
function imgResize(evt){
document.getElementById('imgLogo').src='http://example.com/big.jpj';
document.getElementById('imgLogo').title='big logo';
}
myAddEvent(el,'click',imgResize);
myAddEvent(el,'abort',imgAbortHandler);

Usage

 Used to recover the original resource if the user cancels the download.

Notes

Remarks

Halts downloading of the designated image, but not due to an error. To invoke this event, do one of the following:

• Click an anchor while the document is loading.
• Stop loading the document.
• Navigate to another document.
• Windows Internet Explorer 9. The client stops fetching media data, but not due to an error.

The pEvtObj parameter is required for the following interfaces:

• HTMLAnchorEvents2
• HTMLAreaEvents2
• HTMLButtonElementEvents2
• HTMLControlElementEvents2
• HTMLDocumentEvents2
• HTMLElementEvents2
• HTMLFormElementEvents2
• HTMLImgEvents2
• HTMLFrameSiteEvents2
• HTMLInputFileElementEvents2
• HTMLInputImageEvents2
• HTMLInputTextElementEvents2
• HTMLLabelEvents2
• HTMLLinkElementEvents2
• HTMLMapEvents2
• HTMLMarqueeElementEvents2
• HTMLObjectElementEvents2
• HTMLOptionButtonElementEvents2
• HTMLScriptEvents2
• HTMLSelectElementEvents2
• HTMLStyleElementEvents2
• HTMLTableEvents2
• HTMLTextContainerEvents2
• HTMLWindowEvents2
• HTMLDocumentEvents4
• HTMLElementEvents4

Syntax

Standards information

• HTML5 A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML, Section 6.1.6.2

Event handler parameters

pEvtObj [in]

Type: ****IHTMLEventObj****

Attributions

• Mozilla Developer Network : abort Article]

• Microsoft Developer Network: [abort Event Article]