How to pause a YouTube player when hiding the iframe?

I have a hidden div containing a YouTube video in an <iframe>. When the user clicks on a link, this div becomes visible, the user should then be able to play the video.

When the user closes the panel, the video should stop playback. How can I achieve this?

Code:

<!-- link to open popupVid -->
<p><a href="javascript:;" onClick="document.getElementById('popupVid').style.display='';">Click here</a> to see my presenting showreel, to give you an idea of my style - usually described as authoritative, affable and and engaging.</p>

<!-- popup and contents -->
<div id="popupVid" style="position:absolute;left:0px;top:87px;width:500px;background-color:#D05F27;height:auto;display:none;z-index:200;">

  <iframe width="500" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/T39hYJAwR40" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

  <br /><br /> 
  <a href="javascript:;" onClick="document.getElementById('popupVid').style.display='none';">
  close
  </a>
</div><!--end of popupVid -->

Solution 1:

The easiest way to implement this behaviour is by calling the pauseVideo and playVideo methods, when necessary. Inspired by the result of my previous answer, I have written a pluginless function to achieve the desired behaviour.

The only adjustments:

• I have added a function, toggleVideo
• I have added ?enablejsapi=1 to YouTube's URL, to enable the feature

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ZcMkt/
Code:

<script>
function toggleVideo(state) {
    // if state == 'hide', hide. Else: show video
    var div = document.getElementById("popupVid");
    var iframe = div.getElementsByTagName("iframe")[0].contentWindow;
    div.style.display = state == 'hide' ? 'none' : '';
    func = state == 'hide' ? 'pauseVideo' : 'playVideo';
    iframe.postMessage('{"event":"command","func":"' + func + '","args":""}', '*');
}
</script>

<p><a href="javascript:;" onClick="toggleVideo();">Click here</a> to see my presenting showreel, to give you an idea of my style - usually described as authoritative, affable and and engaging.</p>

<!-- popup and contents -->
<div id="popupVid" style="position:absolute;left:0px;top:87px;width:500px;background-color:#D05F27;height:auto;display:none;z-index:200;">
   <iframe width="500" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/T39hYJAwR40?enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
   <br /><br />
   <a href="javascript:;" onClick="toggleVideo('hide');">close</a>

Solution 2:

Here's a jQuery take on RobW's answer for use hiding /pausing an iframe in a modal window:

    function toggleVideo(state) {
        if(state == 'hide'){
            $('#video-div').modal('hide');
            document.getElementById('video-iframe'+id).contentWindow.postMessage('{"event":"command","func":"pauseVideo","args":""}', '*');
        }
        else {
            $('#video-div').modal('show');
            document.getElementById('video-iframe'+id).contentWindow.postMessage('{"event":"command","func":"playVideo","args":""}', '*');
        }
    }

The html elements referred to are the modal div itself (#video-div) calling the show / hide methods, and the iframe (#video-iframe) which has the video url as is src="" and has the suffix enablejsapi=1? which enables programmatic control of the player (ex. .

For more on the html see RobW's answer.

Solution 3:

Here is a simple jQuery snippet to pause all videos on the page based off of RobW's and DrewT's answers:

jQuery("iframe").each(function() {
  jQuery(this)[0].contentWindow.postMessage('{"event":"command","func":"pauseVideo","args":""}', '*')
});

Solution 4:

Hey an easy way is to simply set the src of the video to nothing, so that the video will desapear while it's hidden an then set the src back to the video you want when you click on the link that opens the video.. to do that simply set an id to the youtube iframe and call the src function using that id like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
function deleteVideo()
{
document.getElementById('VideoPlayer').src='';
}

function LoadVideo()
{
document.getElementById('VideoPlayer').src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/WHAT,EVER,YOUTUBE,VIDEO,YOU,WHANT';
}
</script>

<body>

<p onclick="LoadVideo()">LOAD VIDEO</P>
<p onclick="deleteVideo()">CLOSE</P>

<iframe id="VideoPlayer" width="853" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/WHAT,EVER,YOUTUBE,VIDEO,YOU,HAVE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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