In <audio > or <video > element if we don't give controls attribute, its not working.Why is it so?

Question

Instead only controls (like play, pause, download) shouldn't be available but video or audio should work.

Answer 1

On a desktop, IE 11, FF, Chrome and Safari all play with just 'autoplay'. It appears that it is probably intentional that mobile browsers will not allow 'autoplay' to work without the 'controls', because it would be very annoying not to be able to turn of a video or an audio. With neither present, logically the player should not work.

Btw, for some reason there are two versions of this topic.

Answer 2

Another piece of information:. The autoplay attribute does not work in mobile devices like iPad and iPhone. I will check several desktop browsers later today.

Answer 3

a jquery/any other js plugin might help, what do you guys think???

Answer 4

you cannot play without controls, you have to make it auto play i think

Answer 5

I will. check further tomorrow.

Answer 6

You can use autoplay, but cannot control the playing.

Answer 7

@Rinmawia I checked using only autoplay also
but still it's not working in the code playground:
https://code.sololearn.com/WQHjT54jxOHv/?ref=app

Answer 8

try adding 'autoplay' attribute

Answer 9

On computer or mobile? echo browser

Answer 10

which browser

Answer 11

@victor code playground Android app (Mobile)

Answer 12

ok

Answer 13

thanks a lot victor

Answer 14

its working but visitor can not control the audio&video.

Answer 15

@Rinmawia. The beauty of HTML5 audio/video is it's simplicity​. The HTML5 DOM has methods, properties, and events for the <audio> and <video> elements. These methods, properties, and events allow you to manipulate <audio> and <video> elements using JavaScript. See: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_av_dom.asp