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HTML HTML Video and Audio Media Basics The Video Element

Posted by Dylan Guy
Dylan Guy
Courses Plus Student 1,085 Points

autoplay not working

<video src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge.mp4" type="video/mp4"/>

The autoplay is not working upon page load

Thomas Macdonald
Thomas Macdonald
6,755 Points
Thomas Macdonald
Thomas Macdonald
6,755 Points

For Chrome 70.0 and up (and maybe some other browsers)

autoplay doesn't work if no muted attribute is present

according to MDN.

I added muted as a boolean attribute (no value attached, like when adding controls or autoplay) and it now works.

<video src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge.mp4" type="video/mp4" autoplay muted />
Tristan White
Tristan White
4,654 Points

muted did the trick, but can I ask how you figured that out ? did you just search "autoplay attribute not working"? or... ,I am very green to coding and interested in learning how to learn , as well as learning code.

1 Answer

Alexandra Hadjidaki
Alexandra Hadjidaki
26,496 Points
Alexandra Hadjidaki
Alexandra Hadjidaki
26,496 Points

If you want your video to autoplay on page load, you need to let it know you want to do that

Add the autoplay attribute to your video tag like so:

<video src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge.mp4" type="video/mp4" autoplay/>

Suggestion

A better way to add video to your HTML would be the following, in case the browser doesn't support the video embed element:

<video autoplay>
    <source src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge.mp4" 
            type="video/mp4">
    <!-- You can add more source types here -->
    Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos.
</video>

MDN Documentation for <video> element