Play infinitely looping video on-load in HTML5
For iPhone it works if you add also playsinline so:
<video width="320" height="240" autoplay loop muted playsinline>
<source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
</video>
The loop
attribute should do it:
<video width="320" height="240" autoplay loop muted>
<source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
<source src="movie.ogg" type="video/ogg" />
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
The addition of the unintuitive muted
attribute is required by Chrome as documented on their dev site.
Should you have a problem with the loop attribute (as we had in the past), listen to the videoEnd
event and call the play()
method when it fires.
Note1: I'm not sure about the behavior on Apple's iPad/iPhone, because they have some restrictions against autoplay
.
Note2: loop="true"
and autoplay="autoplay"
are deprecated
You can do this the following two ways:
1) Using loop
attribute in video element (mentioned in the first answer):
2) and you can use the ended
media event:
window.addEventListener('load', function(){
var newVideo = document.getElementById('videoElementId');
newVideo.addEventListener('ended', function() {
this.currentTime = 0;
this.play();
}, false);
newVideo.play();
});
As of April 2018, Chrome (along with several other major browsers) now require the muted
attribute too.
Therefore, you should use
<video width="320" height="240" autoplay loop muted>
<source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
</video>