Stop playing video in iframe when modal is closed

Question

I have a play image with text 'Watch video', when clicked would open up a bootstrap modal window to play the video i put in. I've got the moday view to work. The problem I'm having with this is when I play the video and exit the screen while it is being played, the video continues to play in the background. If I click on the Watch Video link again, it would play the video from where it stopped off previously.

I need to have the video stop when the modal window is closed. It needs to then play the video from the start the next time I click the "Watch video" link. I'm still new to this and am not sure how to do this. Anyone know how I can achieve this?

<div class="col-md-12 f-play" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal">
    <img class="f-play-image" src="images/play.svg" data-target="#myModal" data-video-fullscreen="">Watch video
</div>

<div id="myModal" class="modal fade" role="dialog" tabindex='-1'>
    <div class="modal-dialog">
        <div class="modal-content">
            <div class="modal-body">
                <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9">
                    <iframe class="embed-responsive-item" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7pvci1hwAx8?" allowfullscreen="" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0"></iframe>
                 </div>
             </div>
             <div class="modal-footer">
                 <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
             </div>

        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Does this answer your question? [Twitter Bootstrap Modal stop Youtube video](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13799377/twitter-bootstrap-modal-stop-youtube-video) — gre_gor, Feb 14 '23 at 19:54

score 34 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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I managed to get it to work with the link that @Leo provided. But it was slow as it reloaded the frame everytime the link was clicked. Tried @guillesalazar solution from Twitter Bootstrap Modal stop Youtube video and it worked perfectly. This was the solution I used.

$("#myModal").on('hidden.bs.modal', function (e) {
    $("#myModal iframe").attr("src", $("#myModal iframe").attr("src"));
});

edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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answered Oct 25 '16 at 02:55

Michelle Ashwini

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This does not work for a Vimeo video. The video continues to play after the modal window is closed. Does anyone know a solution? – ControlZ Apr 14 '20 at 19:50
Ahah so dumb and simple, replacing the src attribute by the same value indeed works – Warface May 06 '20 at 12:04
`hidden.bs.modal` needed changed to `hide.bs.modal` for me to get this to work. – ecooper10 Apr 18 '22 at 19:12
Worked for me just now with a Loom video. Thanks! – Christine Treacy Oct 03 '22 at 14:40

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 08 '18 at 12:07

Well you can simply remove the src of the iframe and the put back again like ;

 <iframe id="videosContainers" class="yvideo" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kjsdaf  ?>" w></iframe>
 <span onclick="stopVideo(this.getAttribute('vdoId'))" vdoId ="yvideo" id="CloseModalButton"  data-dismiss="modal"></span>

now the Jquery part

function stopVideo(id){
  var src = $j('iframe.'+id).attr('src');
  $j('iframe.'+id).attr('src','');
  $j('iframe.'+id).attr('src',src);

}

Leonardo Lanchas · Answer 3 · 2016-10-24T10:32:52.887

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You just need to stop the video on the hidden.bs.modal event:

$('#myModal').on('hidden.bs.modal', function () {
    player.stopVideo();
   // or jQuery
   $('#playerID').get(0).stopVideo();
   // or remove video url
   $('playerID').attr('src', '');
})

Here is a very similar (if not equal) to what you need to do: http://www.tutorialrepublic.com/codelab.php?topic=faq&file=play-youtube-video-in-bootstrap-modal

They do not use the iframe API so everytime they close the modal they just delete the video url .attr('src', '');

edited Oct 24 '16 at 10:32

answered Oct 24 '16 at 06:31

Leonardo Lanchas

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I've added this script, but it still does not stops the video when I click close. – Michelle Ashwini Oct 24 '16 at 07:00
What version of Bootstrap are you using? Are you using the Youtube iframe API? Can you post a working example? – Leonardo Lanchas Oct 24 '16 at 07:06
I'm using version 3.3.7 of Bootstrap. I dont think I'm using the youtube API. I'll add my code to codepen and link it here – Michelle Ashwini Oct 24 '16 at 07:11
I have edited the answer, with another example where the video is embedded manually in an iframe – Leonardo Lanchas Oct 24 '16 at 10:33
Thank you! I put my existing code into codepen and it wasnt working. I did find a [solution](http://codepen.io/filippoq/pen/QwogWz/) , but could not understand it very much. The link you included helped me solve my problem and I understand it. Thanks!:) – Michelle Ashwini Oct 25 '16 at 02:34

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 23 '19 at 20:28

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For multiple modals with iframe videos, here is the solution:

$('#myModal').on('hidden.bs.modal', function(e) {
  var $iframes = $(e.target).find('iframe');
  $iframes.each(function(index, iframe){
  $(iframe).attr('src', $(iframe).attr('src'));
  });
})

On modal close, it goes through all the iframe videos and resets them instead of resetting all of them to the first video.

answered Feb 23 '19 at 20:28

sandman8888

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You say "multiple modals" but then specify '#myModal' in the code, which is a unique identifier for a single modal ID, therefore by definition not multiple. How would you actually write a jQuery function to deal with a page that generates multiple modals? (that is, how to dynamically select the modal that is actually opened, among the multiples?) – m.arthur Aug 25 '21 at 20:55

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 24 '19 at 14:24

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// Simple and clean

Try using class or ID before Iframe to refresh/reload the particular video. Otherwise, it will reload all iframe source.

$( id/class + 'iframe').attr('src', $('iframe').attr('src'));

answered Sep 24 '19 at 14:24

sam ruben

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 22 '20 at 05:37

**If you want to open modal with iframe and remove on close best and short answer**

 test = function (){
        $('#test_tutorial').modal('show').on('hidden.bs.modal', function (e) {
            $("#test_tutorial iframe").attr("src", "");
        }).on('show.bs.modal', function (e) {
            $("#test_tutorial iframe").attr("src", $("#test
    _tutorial iframe").attr("data-src"));
        });
    }

TNF · Answer 7 · 2020-11-25T09:18:33.957

Late to the party, but some people may find this useful in the future. In my case I had a real struggle achieving this due to the video being embedded from a div with a video element in the iframe, not with the src directly in the iframe element, like this:

<iframe>
  <div class="videoContainer">
    <video src="#"></video>
  </div>
</iframe>

I solved this with the following approach:

$('#myModal').on('hidden.bs.modal', function() {
  $('iframe').contents().find('video')[0].pause();
});

It also pauses the video instead of refreshing the url/replacing the src attribute by the same value, as suggested in the accepted answer.

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