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Play Background Video on Hover

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Play Background Video on Hover

Description

Play a background video when a user hovers over the video on your Webflow site.

Instructions

  1. Add the Javascript code to the closing body custom code page settings
  2. Update the class name to your chosen class name

Javascript snippet

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<!-- Add to body close section -->
<script>

var Webflow = Webflow || [];
Webflow.push(function() {
    // Change .video here to your video class
    var figure = $(".video").hover(function() {  
        $('video', this).get(0).play(); 
    }, function() {
        $('video', this).get(0).pause();
    }).each(function() {
        $('video', this).get(0).pause();
    });
});

</script>

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