Hidden youtube player loses its methods
- by zaius
I'm controlling a embedded youtube chromeless player with javascript, and I want to hide it occasionally by setting display: none. However, when I show the player again, it loses its youtube methods.
For example:
<script>
swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/apiplayer?enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=player",
"player", "425", "356", "8", null, null,
{allowScriptAccess: "always"}, {id: 'player'}
);
var player = null;
function onYouTubePlayerReady(playerId) {
player = document.getElementById(playerId);
player.addEventListener('onStateChange', 'playerStateChanged');
}
function hidePlayer() {
player.pauseVideo();
player.style.display = 'none';
}
function showPlayer() {
player.style.display = 'block';
player.playVideo();
}
</script>
<a href="#" onClick="hidePlayer();">hide</a>
<a href="#" onClick="showPlayer();">show</a>
<div id="player"></div>
Calling hidePlayer followed by showPlayer gives this error on the playVideo call:
Uncaught TypeError: Object #<an HTMLObjectElement> has no method 'playVideo'
The only solution I can find is to use visibility: hidden, but that is messing with my page layout. Any other solutions out there?
