Stop Playing Video When I Close The Lightbox

Question

I built a popup using this article and it looks really good.

Here is what I did:

<button id="open-popup">Play</button>

<div id="popup-box" class="modal">

  <div class="popup-content">
    <span class="close">&times;</span>
    <p>[vimeo shortcode]</p>
  </div>

</div>

Here is the css

/* The Modal (background) */
.modal {
    display: none; /* Hidden by default */
    position: fixed; /* Stay in place */
    z-index: 1; /* Sit on top */
    left: 0;
    top: 0;
    width: 100%; /* Full width */
    height: 100%; /* Full height */
    overflow: auto; /* Enable scroll if needed */
    background-color: rgb(0,0,0); /* Fallback color */
    background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.4); /* Black w/ opacity */
}

/* Modal Content/Box */
.popup-content {
    background-color: #fefefe;
    margin: 15% auto; /* 15% from the top and centered */
    padding: 20px;
    border: 1px solid #888;
    width: 80%; /* Could be more or less, depending on screen size */
}

/* The Close Button */
.close {
    color: #aaa;
    float: right;
    font-size: 28px;
    font-weight: bold;
}

.close:hover,
.close:focus {
    color: black;
    text-decoration: none;
    cursor: pointer;
}

And here is the JS

(function($) {          
$(document).ready(function(){

// Get the modal
var modal = document.getElementById('popup-box');

// Get the button that opens the modal
var btn = document.getElementById("open-popup");

// Get the <span> element that closes the modal
var span = document.getElementsByClassName("close")[0];

// When the user clicks on the button, open the modal 
btn.onclick = function() {
    modal.style.display = "block";
}

// When the user clicks on <span> (x), close the modal
span.onclick = function() {
    modal.style.display = "none";
}

// When the user clicks anywhere outside of the modal, close it
window.onclick = function(event) {
    if (event.target == modal) {
        modal.style.display = "none";
    }
}

});
})(jQuery);

When I click on the button it's working perfectly, it's centered and looks really good.

The problem is that, when I close the popup the video audio is still playing in the background.

I would like the video to stop when I close the popup.

Any help will be amazing.

Thank you

Answer 1

You have to remove the Vimeo content thus stopping the audio completely. If not that, you would have to use Vimeo API to stop/pause/play the video.

Here a demonstration of how it can be done, adding an iFrame as HTML content for #popup-box .popup-content and then setting the HTML to an empty string to remove it.

(function($) {          
    $(document).ready(function(){
		 
         var iframe = '<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/213100067?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&badge=0" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>';
        
         // When the user clicks on the button, open the modal 
         $("#open-popup").on('click', function(e) {
             e.preventDefault();
             $('#popup-box').show();
             $('#popup-box .popup-content').html(iframe);
         });
        
         // When the user clicks on <span> (x), close the modal
         $('#popup-box .close, #popup-box').on('click', function() {
            $('#popup-box').hide();
            $('#popup-box .popup-content').html('');
         });

    });
})(jQuery);

/* The Modal (background) */
.modal {
    display:none;
    position: fixed; /* Stay in place */
    z-index: 1; /* Sit on top */
    left: 0;
    top: 0;
    width: 100%; /* Full width */
    height: 100%; /* Full height */
    overflow: auto; /* Enable scroll if needed */
    background-color: rgb(0,0,0); /* Fallback color */
    background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.4); /* Black w/ opacity */
}

/* Modal Content/Box */
.popup-content {
    background-color: #fefefe;
    margin: 15% auto; /* 15% from the top and centered */
    padding: 20px;
    border: 1px solid #888;
    width: 80%; /* Could be more or less, depending on screen size */
}

/* The Close Button */
.close {
    color: #aaa;
    float: right;
    font-size: 28px;
    font-weight: bold;
}

.close:hover,
.close:focus {
    color: black;
    text-decoration: none;
    cursor: pointer;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button id="open-popup">Play</button>

<div id="popup-box" class="modal">
	<span class="close">&times;</span>
	<div class="popup-content">
	</div>
</div>