Element: animationcancel event

{{APIRef("Web Animations")}}

The animationcancel event is fired when a CSS Animation unexpectedly aborts. In other words, any time it stops running without sending an {{domxref("Element/animationend_event", "animationend")}} event. This might happen when the {{cssxref("animation-name")}} is changed such that the animation is removed, or when the animating node is hidden using CSS. Therefore, either directly or because any of its containing nodes are hidden.

An event handler for this event can be added by setting the onanimationcancel property, or using {{domxref("EventTarget.addEventListener", "addEventListener()")}}.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like {{domxref("EventTarget.addEventListener", "addEventListener()")}}, or set an event handler property.

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

onanimationcancel = (event) => { }

Event type

An {{domxref("AnimationEvent")}}. Inherits from {{domxref("Event")}}.

{{InheritanceDiagram("AnimationEvent")}}

Event properties

Also inherits properties from its parent {{domxref("Event")}}.

• {{domxref("AnimationEvent.animationName")}} {{ReadOnlyInline}}
  • : A string containing the value of the {{cssxref("animation-name")}} that generated the animation.
• {{domxref("AnimationEvent.elapsedTime")}} {{ReadOnlyInline}}
  • : A float giving the amount of time the animation has been running, in seconds, when this event fired, excluding any time the animation was paused. For an animationstart event, elapsedTime is 0.0 unless there was a negative value for {{cssxref("animation-delay")}}, in which case the event will be fired with elapsedTime containing (-1 * delay).
• {{domxref("AnimationEvent.pseudoElement")}} {{ReadOnlyInline}}
  • : A string, starting with '::', containing the name of the pseudo-element the animation runs on. If the animation doesn't run on a pseudo-element but on the element, an empty string: ''.

Examples

This code gets an element that's currently being animated and adds a listener to the animationcancel event. It then sets the element's {{cssxref("display")}} property to none, which will trigger the animationcancel event.

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

animated.addEventListener("animationcancel", () => {
  console.log("Animation canceled");
});

animated.style.display = "none";

The same, but using the onanimationcancel property instead of addEventListener():

const animated = document.querySelector(".animated");
animated.onanimationcancel = () => {
  console.log("Animation canceled");
};

animated.style.display = "none";

Live example

HTML

<div class="animation-example">
  <div class="container">
    <p class="animation">You chose a cold night to visit our planet.</p>
  </div>
  <button class="activate" type="button">Activate animation</button>
  <div class="event-log"></div>
</div>

CSS

.container {
  height: 3rem;
}

.event-log {
  width: 25rem;
  height: 2rem;
  border: 1px solid black;
  margin: 0.2rem;
  padding: 0.2rem;
}

.animation.active {
  animation-duration: 2s;
  animation-name: slide-in;
  animation-iteration-count: 2;
}

@keyframes slide-in {
  from {
    transform: translateX(100%) scaleX(3);
  }
  to {
    transform: translateX(0) scaleX(1);
  }
}

JavaScript

const animation = document.querySelector("p.animation");
const animationEventLog = document.querySelector(
  ".animation-example>.event-log",
);
const applyAnimation = document.querySelector(
  ".animation-example>button.activate",
);
let iterationCount = 0;

animation.addEventListener("animationstart", () => {
  animationEventLog.textContent = `${animationEventLog.textContent}'animation started' `;
});

animation.addEventListener("animationiteration", () => {
  iterationCount++;
  animationEventLog.textContent = `${animationEventLog.textContent}'animation iterations: ${iterationCount}' `;
});

animation.addEventListener("animationend", () => {
  animationEventLog.textContent = `${animationEventLog.textContent}'animation ended'`;
  animation.classList.remove("active");
  applyAnimation.textContent = "Activate animation";
});

animation.addEventListener("animationcancel", () => {
  animationEventLog.textContent = `${animationEventLog.textContent}'animation canceled'`;
});

applyAnimation.addEventListener("click", () => {
  animation.classList.toggle("active");
  animationEventLog.textContent = "";
  iterationCount = 0;
  const active = animation.classList.contains("active");
  applyAnimation.textContent = active
    ? "Cancel animation"
    : "Activate animation";
});

Result

{{ EmbedLiveSample('Live_example', '100%', '150px') }}

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• CSS Animations
• Using CSS Animations
• {{domxref("AnimationEvent")}}
• Related events: {{domxref("Element/animationstart_event", "animationstart")}}, {{domxref("Element/animationend_event", "animationend")}}, {{domxref("Element/animationiteration_event", "animationiteration")}}