autoplay

Property of dom/HTMLMediaElementdom/HTMLMediaElement

Syntax

var result = element.autoplay;
element.autoplay = value;

Notes

Remarks

You can use the autoplay attribute rather than script to force the audio or video to play. The presence of the autoplay attribute, regardless of assigned value, in either the audio or video element equals true (for example, <audio autoplay=""> is true).

Syntax

Standards information

• HTML5 A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML, Section 4.8.9.7

See also

Related pages

• mediamedia
• audio
• audio
• video element
• video object
• autobufferautobuffer

Attributions

• Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]