HTMLMediaElement: play event

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

Theplay event is fired when thepaused property is changed fromtrue tofalse, as a result of theplay method, or theautoplay attribute.

This event is not cancelable and does not bubble.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods likeaddEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

addEventListener("play", (event) => { })onplay = (event) => { }

Event type

A genericEvent.

Examples

These examples add an event listener for the HTMLMediaElement'splay event, then post a message when that event handler has reacted to the event firing.

UsingaddEventListener():

const video = document.querySelector("video");video.addEventListener("play", (event) => {  console.log(    "The Boolean paused property is now 'false'. Either the play() method was called or the autoplay attribute was toggled.",  );});

Using theonplay event handler property:

const video = document.querySelector("video");video.onplay = (event) => {  console.log(    "The Boolean paused property is now 'false'. Either the play() method was called or the autoplay attribute was toggled.",  );};