HTMLMediaElement: loadedmetadata 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 loadedmetadata event is fired when the metadata has been loaded.

Syntax

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

addEventListener("loadedmetadata", (event) => { })

onloadedmetadata = (event) => { }

Event type

A generic Event.

Examples

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

Using addEventListener():

const video = document.querySelector("video");

video.addEventListener("loadedmetadata", (event) => {
  console.log(
    "The duration and dimensions of the media and tracks are now known.",
  );
});

Using the onloadedmetadata event handler property:

const video = document.querySelector("video");

video.onloadedmetadata = (event) => {
  console.log(
    "The duration and dimensions of the media and tracks are now known.",
  );
};