Controling HTML5 video with jQuery

Question

I'm trying to create control buttons using jQuery for my html5 video, which is hosted locally. However I can't seem to get the buttons to work. I have tried different methods of coding but seem to work.

$(function(){
    var video = $('#video').get(0);

    $(document).delegate('#play-button', 'click', function() {
        video.load();
        video.play();
        $('#play-button').addClass('hide');
    });

    $(document).delegate('#pause', 'click', function() {
        if (video.play() === true) {
            video.pause();
        } else {
            $('#pause > img').attr('src', 'image/play.png');
            video.play();
        }
    });

    $(document).delegate('#stop', 'click', function() {
        video.stop();
        video.currentTime = 0;
    });
});

<div id="video-controls">
    <button type="button" role="button" id="play-button"><img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri () ?>/images/play.png" alt="play"></button>
    <button type="button" role="button" id="pause"><img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri () ?>/images/pause.png" alt="pause"></button>
    <button type="button" role="button" id="stop"><img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri () ?>/images/stop.png" alt="stop"></button>
</div>

What I'm trying to do is show a play button in the middle of the video and once clicked it will play the video but then hide. So to pause and stop the video the user will need to hover over the video and the controls will appear.

Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to look at my question.

On pause you never show again your #play-button

Roko C. Buljan
– Roko C. Buljan

2016-07-22 09:50:27 +00:00
Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 9:50 — Roko C. Buljan
– Roko C. Buljan, Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 9:50
.stop() method doesn't exists in HTML5 video

Luca
– Luca

2016-07-22 10:04:53 +00:00
Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 10:04 — Luca
– Luca, Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 10:04
Thanks for letting me know @RokoC.Buljan

Mat Teague
– Mat Teague

2016-07-22 11:20:54 +00:00
Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 11:20 — Mat Teague
– Mat Teague, Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 11:20
Thanks @Luca I never realised that stop() wasn't a method.

Mat Teague
– Mat Teague

2016-07-22 11:21:01 +00:00
Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 11:21 — Mat Teague
– Mat Teague, Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 11:21

Luca · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-22 10:23:44Z

As commented your code has some errors.

I fixed them and now you can see here a working jsfiddle

Javascript

    var video = $('video').get(0);

$('video, #video-controls').mouseenter(function(){
    if($('#video-controls').css('display') === 'none')
        $('#video-controls').show(); 
});
$('video, #video-controls').mouseleave(function(){ 
    if($('#video-controls').css('display') !== 'none')
        $('#video-controls').hide(); 
});

$(document).ready(function() { 
    var top = (($('video').position().top + $('video').height()) / 2) - $('#video-controls').height() / 2 ;
  var left = (($('video').position().left + $('video').width()) / 2) - $('#video-controls').width() / 2;

    $('#video-controls').css({top: top, left: left, position:'fixed'}); 
});

    $(document).delegate('#play-button', 'click', function() {
        video.load();
        video.play();
        $('#play-button').addClass('hide');
    });

    $(document).delegate('#pause', 'click', function() {
        if (video.paused !== true && video.ended !== true) {
            video.pause();
        } else {
            $('#pause > img').attr('src', 'image/play.png');
            video.play();
        }
    });

    $(document).delegate('#stop', 'click', function() {
        video.pause();
        video.currentTime = 0;
    });

HTML

<div id="video-controls" class="ctrls">
    <button type="button" role="button" id="play-button"><img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri () ?>/images/play.png" alt="play"></button>
    <button type="button" role="button" id="pause"><img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri () ?>/images/pause.png" alt="pause"></button>
    <button type="button" role="button" id="stop"><img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri () ?>/images/stop.png" alt="stop"></button>
</div>
<video width="400" controls>
  <source src="http://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4" type="video/mp4">
  <source src="http://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.ogg" type="video/ogg">
  Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
</video>

<p>
Video courtesy of
<a href="http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/" target="_blank">Big Buck Bunny</a>.
</p>

CSS

video{ z-index:0;}
.ctrls{ z-index:1; display: none;}

Thank you so much for the help and taking the time to write this code!! I really appreciate it. I never thought of using mouseenter and leave.

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