JavaScript window onerror event

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In general we use try/catch statement to catch errors in JavaScript. If an error is raised by a statement that is not inside a try...catch block, the onerror event is fired.

message Specifies the error message.
URL Specifies the location of the file where the error occurred.
line Specifies the line number where the error occurred.

JavaScript window onerror event example

{
alert("Message : " + message + "\nURL : " + url + "\nLine Number : " + line);
// Return true to supress the browser error messages (like in older versions of Internet Explorer)
return true;
}

NonExistingFunction();

If the error is handled by a try/catch statement, then the onerror event is not raised. onerror event is raised only when there is an unhandled exception.
{
alert("Message : " + message + "\nURL : " + url + "\nLine Number : " + line);
// Return true to supress the browser error messages (like in older versions of Internet Explorer)
return true;
}

try
{
NonExistingFunction();
}
catch (e)
{
}

Output : 'NonExistingFunction' is undefined

onerror event handler method can also be used with HTML elements : In the example below, since the image is not existing and cannot be found we get "There is a problem loading the image" error.
[script type="text/javascript"]
function imageErrorHandler()
{
alert("There is a problem loading the image");
}
[/script]

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