I'm trying to use jQuery to control an HTML5 audio element, but I'm no genius with JS. What I want is for the player to start on page load, which I've done, but when the play button is clicked, I want to check whether or not the audio is playing. If it's playing when clicked: Stop the audio. If it's not playing when clicked: Play the audio.
If you could help, it'd be much appreciated.
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Many thanks,
you should use a single play/pause toggle button in which you need to check if your audio is paused or not
var audioplayer = document.getElementById("audio-player");
$("#play-bt").click(function(){
if (audioplayer.paused) {
audioplayer.play();
}
else {
audioplayer.pause();
}
$(this).toggleClass('pause'); /* style your toggle button according to
the current state */
})
var audio = new Audio("http://www.w3schools.com/html5/song.ogg"); //or you can get it with getelementbyid
audio.addEventListener('canplay', function() {
//code, when audio can play
audio.play(); //this function will start the music
})
with audio.play() function you can start it. You don't need JQuery
If you wish to use a jquery selector or have a jquery selector already, you can add [0] to get the native dom element.
So an example that actually uses jquery would be.
$('audio')[0].pause()
