Question

Is it possible to remove (playing) HTML5 / YouTube / Vimeo embedded videos along with sound and then restore them somehow when needed?

I know CSS ways of doing such things, like: display none; opacity: 0; visibility: hidden, but the point is when I use them – I can still hear the sound from the videos as they are just hidden.

I’m using Cycle jQuery shortcode and want to remove all the videos from non-active slides, I know there are APIs for each case but I’d love to avoid using them.

Answer 1

jQuery’s .remove() selector returns the objects it removes, so you could do this:

var deleted = $('#foo').remove();

// Some time later

$('#parent').append(deleted);