How does the play button work in HTML?
The button will work in both way; it will allow to play the video click and also pause the video click again. We are going to use the HTML button then place the HTML5 video tag to define the video. By using the javascript, we will handle it’s play/pause functionality. We will also manage the active state of the button.
How can I play an HTML5 video with an onClick event?
ReactJS: How can I play an html5 video with an onClick event correctly with react? In my react component I have a video tag like so: And I have a button a bit further down that I would like to use to activate the video:
How can I add a play button to a video?
It is isn’t quite hard to add the Overlay Play button over the HTML5 video. All we need to use the CSS and bit of Javascript. In our previous article, we have explained the method of adding CSS text over a video which makes possible with pure CSS.
Why is the click to play button not working?
Chromium has a bug where the first click no video body does not work for videos that have preload=”none”. Further clicks work however. And it’s placeholder does not make it clear that you can click to play anywhere (which you can’t anyways, hopefully they will add a decent placeholder when the bug gets fixed):
How to center play button in video-JS player?
I thought I’d share a piece of code that might come in handy to someone. This is a function that center’s the play button inside the video-js player, it works for me. You just need to call it on the pause event and when the player is initialized and not being autoplayed.
How do I make the play button look good?
To align the button center of the video, we will use the position absolute just like we did for the video. To make the button look good in appearance, we will add a background color, font size, and color. The button background color will change the inactive status.
