HTMLVideoElement: resize event

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.

The resize event of the HTMLVideoElement interface fires when one or both of the videoWidth and videoHeight properties have just been updated.

This event is not cancelable but may bubble.

Syntax

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

js
addEventListener("resize", (event) => { })

onresize = (event) => { }

Event type

A generic Event.

Examples

html

js
const el = document.getElementById("media");
el.addEventListener("resize", () => {
  console.log("The size of the video element has changed!");
});

Specifications

Specification

HTML
# event-media-resize

HTML
# handler-onresize

Browser compatibility

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