How to pause HTML 5 Video player using JavaScript

Question

Well, the title may be sounds easy, but what i want is to do the same thing from browser address bar (my page contains many videos ). i tried

   javascript:videoelement=document.getElementById("vid1");videoelement.pause();

It doesn't works anyway.

suppose my code is

<html>
<body>
<embed src="https://myaudio.mp3" autoplay="false" height="100" width="300">
</body>
</html>

how can i pause/paly the player?

javascript:document.getElementsByTagName("embed").pause();

^^^ not working

Can you explain **"the same thing from browser address bar"** — NewToJS, Nov 11 '15 at 11:11
i want to pause HTML 5 Video player using JavaScript from the browser address bar (js injection ) — Yuvifan, Nov 11 '15 at 11:13

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 11 '15 at 11:01

2

Remove the # from the element name like so:

javascript:videoelement=document.getElementById("vid1");videoelement.pause();

You are already using the getElementById function so you don't need it.

answered Nov 11 '15 at 11:01

Alex Pan

sorry, i was trying the same...(question edited now) – Yuvifan Nov 11 '15 at 11:06

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 11 '15 at 11:05

0

You are using a jQuery/CSS ID selector when what you wanted was using vanilla javascript.

You are trying to select an element with ID "#vid1", such as: <video id="#vid1">

Just remove the "#" from getElementById.

answered Nov 11 '15 at 11:05

gcandal

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 11 '15 at 11:08

0

HTML Audio/Video DOM pause() Method:

The play() method starts playing the current audio or video.

Tip: Use the pause() method to pause the current audio/video.

answered Nov 11 '15 at 11:08

Mohammed Akdim

– Yuvifan Nov 11 '15 at 11:33
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11953656/start-pause-audio-in-an-embed-tag-ie8 – Mohammed Akdim Nov 11 '15 at 15:51
bro we can do it in plain js. but what i want is to do the same from url address bar. – Yuvifan Nov 13 '15 at 04:21

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