This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The AnimationEvent()
constructor returns a newly created AnimationEvent
, representing an event in relation with an animation.
Syntax
animationEvent = new AnimationEvent(type, {animationName: aPropertyName, elapsedTime : aFloat, pseudoElement: aPseudoElementName});
Parameters
The AnimationEvent()
constructor also inherits arguments from Event()
.
type
- A
DOMString
representing the name of the type of theAnimationEvent
. It is case-sensitive and can be:'animationstart'
,'animationend'
, or'animationiteration'
. animationName
Optional- A
DOMString
containing the value of theanimation-name
CSS property associated with the transition. It defaults to""
. elapsedTime
Optional- 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
is0.0
unless there was a negative value foranimation-delay
, in which case the event will be fired withelapsedTime
containing(-1 *
delay)
. It defaults to0.0
. pseudoElement
Optional- Is a
DOMString
, 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 itself, specify an empty string:""
. It defaults to""
.
Return value
A new AnimationEvent
, initialized per any provided options.
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
CSS Animations The definition of 'AnimationEvent()' in that specification. |
Working Draft | Initial definition. |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AnimationEvent() constructor | Chrome Full support 43 | Edge Full support ≤79 | Firefox Full support 23 | IE No support No | Opera No support No | Safari No support No | WebView Android Full support 43 | Chrome Android Full support 43 | Firefox Android Full support 23 | Opera Android No support No | Safari iOS ? | Samsung Internet Android Full support 4.0 |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- Compatibility unknown
- Compatibility unknown
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
See also
- Using CSS animations
- Animation-related CSS properties and at-rules:
animation
,animation-delay
,animation-direction
,animation-duration
,animation-fill-mode
,animation-iteration-count
,animation-name
,animation-play-state
,animation-timing-function
,@keyframes
- The
AnimationEvent
interface it belongs to.