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JavaScript Setting Options for the Media Player

Posted by Daniel Cranney
Daniel Cranney
11,609 Points

Why are my controls all messed up? I've got multiple play buttons on each element.

I'm using this code, and my player is completely messed up. It has two progress bars on the video, and two play buttons on the audio.

<div class="wrapper">
      <div class="videoWrapper">
    <h2>Video Example</h2>
    <video width="852" height="480" class="mejs__player">
      <source src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge.mp4" type="video/mp4">
      <source src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge.ogg" type="video/ogg">
      <track label="English" kind="subtitles" srclang="en" src="bridge-captions.vtt" default>
    </video>
  </div>

  <div class="audioWrapper">
    <h2>Audio Example</h2>

    <audio class="mejs__player">
      <source src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge-audio.mp3" type="audio/mp3">
    </audio>
  </div>
</div>

<script>
  $('video, audio').mediaelementplayer({
    features: ['playpause', 'tracks', 'progress']
  });
</script>

1 Answer

Zoltán Erkel
Zoltán Erkel
6,340 Points
Zoltán Erkel
Zoltán Erkel
6,340 Points

I think it might have to do with you keeping the "mejs__player" classes while also passing the jQuery shorthand with the added script tag ( the one starting with $). Not sure, but this might end up causing the JS to link the mediaelementplayer elements twice to your page.