htmlvideoobject-tag

HTML object autoplay off

I am using the object tag for displaying documents. PDFs, images and videos. While displaying videos, the autoplay tag is there by default. I have tried to disabled it without success:

Note: I am not using the video tag, but the object tag.

  <object autostart="false" class="document" type="text/html" data='<%= make_https(card.docu.url) %>'>
    <param name="autoplay" value="false">
  </object>

I already tried autostart="0", 0, false. I run out of ideas.

Any help would be appreciated. Otherwise I will have to destroy the attribute with ES6, something that I want to avoid.

Edit: after trying autostart="false" and autoplay="false", still did not work. I am affecting the object tag, not the video tag, who has by default the autoplay:

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How can I remove the autoplay in the video tag, if I am using the object tag?

Thanks

Solution

  • This post sits here for 3 years with no answer.

    I've encountered a similar situation, what I did was to add onload function to pause the videos (works in FF 88 and chromium 90, on ubuntu):

    <object class="document" type="text/html" data='<%= make_https(card.docu.url) %>'  onload="this.contentDocument.querySelector('video').pause()">
</object>