Video play on hover

Question

I have a selection of video thumbnails that I want to trigger to play/pause on hover. I have managed to get one of them to work, but I run into a problem with the others on the list. Attached is the fiddle of my code. There will be a div covering each html5 video so the hover needs to delegate to the video, which I'm unsure as to how to do.

https://jsfiddle.net/meh1aL74/

Preview of the html here -

<div class="video">
            <div class="videoListCopy">
                <a href="videodetail.html" class="buttonMore">
                        <div class="breaker"><div class="line"></div></div>
                        <div class="buttonContent">
                            <div class="linkArrowContainer">
                                <div class="iconArrowRight"></div>
                                <div class="iconArrowRightTwo"></div>
                            </div>
                            <span>Others</span>
                        </div>
                    </a>
            </div>
            <div class="videoSlate">
                <video class="thevideo" loop>
                  <source src="http://www.w3schools.com/html/movie.ogg" type="video/ogg">
                Your browser does not support the video tag.
                </video>
            </div>
        </div>
         
         
          <div class="video">
            <div class="videoListCopy">
                <a href="videodetail.html" class="buttonMore">
                        <div class="breaker"><div class="line"></div></div>
                        <div class="buttonContent">
                            <div class="linkArrowContainer">
                                <div class="iconArrowRight"></div>
                                <div class="iconArrowRightTwo"></div>
                            </div>
                            <span>Others</span>
                        </div>
                    </a>
            </div>
            <div class="videoSlate">
                <video class="thevideo" loop>
                  <source src="http://www.w3schools.com/html/movie.ogg" type="video/ogg">
                Your browser does not support the video tag.
                </video>
            </div>
        </div>

Preview of the JavaScript here -

    var figure = $(".video");
    var vid = $("video");

    [].forEach.call(figure, function (item) {
            item.addEventListener('mouseover', hoverVideo, false);
            item.addEventListener('mouseout', hideVideo, false);
    });
    
    function hoverVideo(e) {  
            $('.thevideo')[0].play(); 
    }

    function hideVideo(e) {
            $('.thevideo')[0].pause(); 
    }

Thank you very much for your help.

Answer 1

Shortest version would be this one

<div>
    <video onmouseover="this.play()" onmouseout="this.pause();this.currentTime=0;">
    <source src="yourVideo.ogg" type="video/ogg"></source>
    </video>    
</div>

This way it would be a bit cleaner, if you desire that.

Answer 2

Why are you uisng native event binding together with jQuery ?

Anyway, if you want to handle the events natively you can use the .bind method and pass the index of each video to the handlers

var figure = $(".video");
var vid = figure.find("video");

[].forEach.call(figure, function (item,index) {
    item.addEventListener('mouseover', hoverVideo.bind(item,index), false);
    item.addEventListener('mouseout', hideVideo.bind(item,index), false);
});

function hoverVideo(index, e) {
    vid[index].play(); 
}

function hideVideo(index, e) {
    vid[index].pause(); 
}

Demo at http://jsfiddle.net/gaby/0o8tt2z8/2/

---

Or you can go full jQuery

var figure = $(".video").hover( hoverVideo, hideVideo );

function hoverVideo(e) { $('video', this).get(0).play(); }
function hideVideo(e) { $('video', this).get(0).pause(); }

Demo at http://jsfiddle.net/gaby/0o8tt2z8/1/