---
title: abort
slug: Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/abort_event
translation_of: Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/abort_event
translation_of_original: Web/Events/abort
original_slug: Web/Events/abort
---
<p>The <code>abort</code> event is fired when the loading of a resource has been aborted.</p>

<h2 id="Información_general">Información general</h2>

<dl>
 <dt style="float: left; text-align: right; width: 120px;">Specification</dt>
 <dd style="margin: 0 0 0 120px;"><a class="external" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#event-type-abort">DOM L3</a></dd>
 <dt style="float: left; text-align: right; width: 120px;">Interface</dt>
 <dd style="margin: 0 0 0 120px;">UIEvent if generated from a user interface, Event otherwise.</dd>
 <dt style="float: left; text-align: right; width: 120px;">Bubbles</dt>
 <dd style="margin: 0 0 0 120px;">No</dd>
 <dt style="float: left; text-align: right; width: 120px;">Cancelable</dt>
 <dd style="margin: 0 0 0 120px;">No</dd>
 <dt style="float: left; text-align: right; width: 120px;">Target</dt>
 <dd style="margin: 0 0 0 120px;">Element</dd>
 <dt style="float: left; text-align: right; width: 120px;">Default Action</dt>
 <dd style="margin: 0 0 0 120px;">None</dd>
</dl>

<h2 id="Propiedades">Propiedades</h2>

<table class="standard-table">
 <thead>
  <tr>
   <th scope="col">Property</th>
   <th scope="col">Type</th>
   <th scope="col">Description</th>
  </tr>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <td><code>target</code> {{readonlyInline}}</td>
   <td><a href="/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventTarget" title="EventTarget is an interface implemented by objects that can receive events and may have listeners for them."><code>EventTarget</code></a></td>
   <td>The event target (the topmost target in the DOM tree).</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td><code>type</code> {{readonlyInline}}</td>
   <td><a href="/en-US/docs/Web/API/DOMString" title="DOMString is a UTF-16 String. As JavaScript already uses such strings, DOMString is mapped directly to a String."><code>DOMString</code></a></td>
   <td>The type of event.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td><code>bubbles</code> {{readonlyInline}}</td>
   <td><a href="/en-US/docs/Web/API/Boolean" title="The Boolean object is an object wrapper for a boolean value."><code>Boolean</code></a></td>
   <td>Whether the event normally bubbles or not.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td><code>cancelable</code> {{readonlyInline}}</td>
   <td><a href="/en-US/docs/Web/API/Boolean" title="The Boolean object is an object wrapper for a boolean value."><code>Boolean</code></a></td>
   <td>Whether the event is cancellable or not.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td><code>view</code> {{readonlyInline}}</td>
   <td><a class="new" href="/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowProxy" rel="nofollow" title="The documentation about this has not yet been written; please consider contributing!"><code>WindowProxy</code></a></td>
   <td><a href="/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/defaultView" title="In browsers, document.defaultView returns the window object associated with a document, or null if none is available."><code>document.defaultView</code></a> (<code>window</code> of the document)</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td><code>detail</code> {{readonlyInline}}</td>
   <td><code>long</code> (<code>float</code>)</td>
   <td>0.</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>