HTMLMediaElement: seeking event

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The seeking event is fired when a seek operation starts, meaning the Boolean seeking attribute has changed to true and the media is seeking a new position.

This event is not cancelable and does not bubble.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

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addEventListener("seeking", (event) => { }) onseeking = (event) => { } 

Event type

A generic Event.

Examples

These examples add an event listener for the HTMLMediaElement's seeking event, then post a message when that event handler has reacted to the event firing.

Using addEventListener():

js
const video = document.querySelector("video"); video.addEventListener("seeking", (event) => { console.log("Video is seeking a new position."); }); 

Using the onseeking event handler property:

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const video = document.querySelector("video"); video.onseeking = (event) => { console.log("Video is seeking a new position."); }; 

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# event-media-seeking
HTML
# handler-onseeking

Browser compatibility

See also