HTML5 audio DOM Exception 11 error with currentTime=0

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EDIT: I posted this in the Wordpress side but some admin thinks it goes here because they say it's a client side problem but I don't think it is because he script works as is (in a non-wordpress site) but only throws the DOM Exception 11 error when the script is used on a Wordpress site and only on certain browsers. The very same script works under Wordpress but only on Chrome. I have taken a script that plays an audio clip when an anchor link is hovered and turned it into a Wordpress plugin. It works fine but only on Chrome (Mac). On Firefox or Safari (current versions) the script is throwing a DOM error. Here is the error: INVALID_STATE_ERR: DOM Exception 11: An attempt was made to use an object that is not, or is no longer, usable. The line that is producing the error is: `html5audio.currentTime=0` The below script works fine on the browsers I am having a problem with in a non-Wordpress site. http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/soundlink.shtml#current I have tried researchi…

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I guess it's too late for the original poster, but in case anyone else comes looking...

I had a similar problem - in my case the code worked on Chrome, but nothing else as far as I could tell, but it's not a Wordpress site. After some experimenting, I realised that the error only happened if currentTime was already 0. So the solution was quite simple:

```
html5audio.pause(); 
if (html5audio.currentTime != 0) {
   html5audio.currentTime=0;
}  
html5audio.play();
```

I hope that helps someone.

HTML5 audio DOM Exception 11 error with currentTime=0

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