How can I stop a video with Javascript in Youtube?

Question

Situation: here, where I pressed some video. Problem: I try to stop the video by Javascript in the console of Firebug: ``` player.stopVideo(playerid):Void [1] [2] ``` Question: Why does not the command above work? [1] Source for the part "player.stopVideo():Void" [2] I looked playerid with Firebug from the source.

Accepted Answer

Your video is requesting w/ the JSAPI enabled, so you are very close! All you need is a valid reference to the embedded player. Inspecting your page revealed that you are using the HTML DOM element id of "playerid" to identify your player.

Example:

```
<embed id="playerid" width="100%" height="100%" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" name="playerid" style="" src="http://www.youtube.com/apiplayerbeta?enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=normalplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
```

To obtain a reference to the player and then stop the video use the following code:

```
var myPlayer = document.getElementById('playerid');
myPlayer.stopVideo();
```

How can I stop a video with Javascript in Youtube?

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