aria-busy attribute | ariaBusy property (Internet Explorer)

[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]

Sets or retrieves a value indicating whether a live region is finished updating.

Syntax

<element aria-busy="p" ... >

object.setAttribute("aria-busy",value);var value = object.getAttribute("aria-busy");

Property values

Type: String

The busy state.

(true)

The region is loading.

(false)

Default. Clear the busy state.

(error)

The region is invalid.

Remarks

This property applies to live regions in the user interface. If authors know that multiple parts of the same live region need to be loaded, they can set ariaBusy to true when the first part is loaded, and then set it to false when the last part is loaded.

Note  For cross-browser compatibility, always use the WAI-ARIA attribute syntax to access and modify ARIA properties, for example object.setAttribute("aria-valuenow", newValue).

See also

Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)

W3C ARIA-Busy

Build date: 2/13/2012