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A simple method to stop YouTube, Vimeo, and HTML5 videos from playing.
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| /** | |
| * Stop an iframe or HTML5 <video> from playing | |
| * @param {Element} element The element that contains the video | |
| */ | |
| var stopVideo = function ( element ) { | |
| var iframe = element.querySelector( 'iframe'); | |
| var video = element.querySelector( 'video' ); | |
| if ( iframe ) { | |
| var iframeSrc = iframe.src; | |
| iframe.src = iframeSrc; | |
| } | |
| if ( video ) { | |
| video.pause(); | |
| } | |
| }; |
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Super useful, thanks! In my implementation, I added a
.replace()to line 10 in case of autoplay: