iPad html5 video with NO controls?

iOS does not support the autoplay attribute of the video tag. It would also appear that you cannot use jQuery to bind to a click event from the video element (see fiddle).

A workaround is to position an invisible div over the video element and bind the click which plays the video to that (see fiddle):

HTML:

<div id="video-overlay"></div><video id="video" width="400" height="300">      <source id='mp4'        src="http://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.mp4"        type='video/mp4'>      <source id='webm'        src="http://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.webm"        type='video/webm'>      <source id='ogv'        src="http://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.ogv"        type='video/ogg'></video>

CSS:

#video { border: 1px solid black; }#video-overlay { position: absolute; width: 400px; height: 300px; z-index: 999;  }

jQuery:

$('#video-overlay').click(function(){   document.getElementById('video').play();});

By design you can't autoplay video, but it's simple enough to remove the controls after playback has started, which I'm guessing is the effect you really want:

<video id="video" src="video.mp4" poster="image.jpg" preload="auto" onplaying="this.controls=false"/></video>

I used this

<video id="video" controls=“true” width="300" height="250" poster="gray30x25.gif"  autoplay onplaying="this.controls=false">

controls=“true” - makes it work on ipad

autoplay - makes it autoplay except mobile

onplaying="this.controls=false" - removes the controls when playing

It autoplays on laptop, and works on iPad!
thanks Doin