Question

I am working with embeded youtube video. I need to replace it with the image and when the image is clicked the video starts playing which I have implemented:

<script type="text/javascript">
   function start_video() {
      var iframe = '<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="590" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nCgQDjiotG0?autoplay=1&amp;rel=0&showinfo=0" frameborder="0" title="none" allowfullscreen></iframe>';
      document.getElementById("video_player").innerHTML = iframe;
   }
</script>

And html:

<div id="video_player"><img style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="start_video();" src="fake_image.jpg" alt="Play Video" /></div>

But now I have a problem stopping this video by clicking on some div or some other element and replacing video back with image at the same time.

Answer 1

Why don’t you just give the iframe an id and then remove the iframe and place the image there?

function stop_video() {
    var elem = document.getElementById('video_iframe');
    var parent = elem.parentNode;
    parent.removeChild(elem);
    var image = document.createElement('img');
    image.setAttribute('src','yourImage.jpg');
    parent.appendChild(image);
}

I also suggest that you do not set the innerHTML as you did, you should actually deal with objects like this one above.

function start_video() {
    var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
    iframe.setAttribute('title','Youtube video player');
    iframe.setAttribute('width','590');
    iframe.setAttribute('height','360');
    iframe.setAttribute('src','http://www.youtube.com/embed/nCgQDjiotG0?autoplay=1&rel=0&showinfo=0');
    iframe.setAttribute('frameborder','0');
    iframe.setAttribute('allowfullscreen','allowfullscreen');
    document.getElementById('video_player').appendChild(iframe);
}