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JavaScript

Tracy Excell
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Tracy Excell
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Tracy Excell
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How to get my custom video play button to function?

Hello,

I am trying to create a custom video player. I am starting with getting the play button to work, but it is not. Does anyone know what steps I am missing in getting this to work?

HTML 

        <!--Embedded Video --> 
          <div id="video-container">  

              <video height="500" width="620" id="video1"> 

                  <source src="video/video2.ogg" type="video/ogg" class="video" />

                  <source src="video/video1.mp4" type="video/mp" class="video" />

                 <track label="English" id="captions" kind="subtitles" srclang="en" src="video/captions.vtt" default />

             </video>

           </div>   


        <!--Video Controls --> 

       <button type="button" id="play_pause"><img class="icon play" src="icons/pause-  icon.png" alt="pause button"></button>










Javascript


``` //video variables    

var video = document.getElementById("video1");



//button variables 

var playButton = document.getElementById("play_pause");
var volume = document.getElementById("volume");
var fullScreen = document.getElementById("full_screen");


//progressbar variables 

var seek = document.getElementById("seekBar");
var buffer = document.getElementById("bufferBar");


//event listeners 

playButton.addEventListener("click", playPause, true);


window.onload = initializeVideo;

function playPause() {
   if (video.paused === true){
        video.play();
    } else {
        video.pause();
      playButton.innerHTML = "<img src="icons/play-icon.png alt="playButton">"
    }

}