Using Javascript to play HTML5 video

Question

How do I play an HTML5 video in a webpage with the press of a single key (eg. pressing the 'R' key) instead of using the mouse? Can I somehow use javascript to do this?

this was asked before on this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4646998/play-pause-html-5-video-using-jquery — GrimR1P, Mar 07 '16 at 06:23

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 07 '16 at 06:38

Yes, It can be done. Following is the code which should work.

<script type="text/javascript">
  function myKeyPress(e){
    var keynum;

    if(window.event) { // IE                    
      keynum = e.keyCode;
    } else if(e.which){ // Netscape/Firefox/Opera                   
      keynum = e.which;
    }

    if(keynum == 82){  // 82 is key code for r.
         var samplevideo = document.getElementById('samplevideo');
         samplevideo.play();
    }  


  }
</script>

Punit Gajjar · Answer 2 · 2016-03-07T06:48:53.530

Here is the code,

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head>
        <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body> 

        <video width="400" controls id="videoId">
            <source src="http://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4" type="video/mp4">
            <source src="http://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.ogg" type="video/ogg">
            Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
        </video>

    </body> 
    <script type="text/javascript">
         $(document).keydown(function(e) {
            if (e.keyCode == 82 ) {
                alert("You have Pressed R , lets play the video");
                document.getElementById('videoId').play();
            }
        });
    </script>
</html>

i have also created a fiddle .

https://jsfiddle.net/ykaadart/

Using Javascript to play HTML5 video

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