jquery - Click the poster image the HTML5 video plays?

Question

I have an HTML5 video with a poster attribute. I would like to somehow set it up so that you can click on anywhere on the video element (the area of the poster image) and it will fire the play event and start the video? I feel like this is fairly standard practice, but I can not find a way to do this without flash. Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

This is working for me Andrew.

In your html head add this small piece of js:

var video = document.getElementById('video');
video.addEventListener('click',function(){
    video.play();
},false);

Or, just add an onlick attribute directly to your html element:

<video src="your_video" width="250" height="50" poster="your_image" onclick="this.play();"/>