GlobalEventHandlers.onabort

An event handler for abort events sent to the window. (Not available with Firefox 2 or Safari.)

While the standard for aborting a document load is defined, HTML issue #3525 suggests that browsers do not currently fire the "abort" event on window that would trigger onabort to be called.

TODO: define what "abort" is. Closing the window via window manager? Stopping the load of the page? By which means and reasons (user, network/server)? At which stages would it fire / be catched? For IE, onabort is only available with img tags.

Syntax

window.onabort = funcRef

funcRef

Reference to a function

Example

window.onabort = function() {
  alert('Load aborted.');
}

Specification

Browser compatibilityUpdate compatibility data on GitHub