This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The read-only HTMLMediaElement.paused property tells whether the media element is paused.
A boolean value. true is paused and false is not paused.
const obj = document.createElement("video");
console.log(obj.paused); // true
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-media-paused-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
paused |
3 | 12 | 3.5 | ≤12.1 | 3.1 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 3 |
HTMLMediaElement: Interface used to define the HTMLMediaElement.paused property
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/paused