html - Disable html5 video autoplay

Question

How can I disable html5 video autoplay?

what I've tried:

<video width="640" height="480" controls="controls" type="video/mp4" autoplay="false" preload="none"><source src="http://mydomain.com/mytestfile.mp4">Your browser does not support the video tag.</video>

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19664622/disable-html5-video-autoplay

Answer 1

I'd remove the autoplay attribute, since if the browser encounters it, it autoplays!

autoplay is a HTML boolean attribute, but be aware that the values true and false are not allowed. To represent a false value, you must omit the attribute.

The values "true" and "false" are not allowed on boolean attributes. To represent a false value, the attribute has to be omitted altogether.

Also, the type goes inside the source, like this:

<video width="640" height="480" controls preload="none">
   <source src="http://example.com/mytestfile.mp4" type="video/mp4">
   Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>

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References:

• http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/video.html
• HTML Spec (boolean attributes)