I have created a modal and I want to stop the Youtube video from playing in the background when the modal is closed. How do I add the code to a button or text? If you check on my site, I have a Link Text that I want to add the embedded code too, but it is not working?
You can find this helpful:
I need to do the same, but this article is not helpful at all.
The question is how to attach onClick attribute to link or button.
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I would simply add an id to your button within the Webflow UI, then target that button with javascript custom code by adding a āclickā event listener which would then run whatever function you like.
HTML
<button id="button">button</button>
JavaScript
(function clickMe() {
const button = document.getElementById("button");
button.addEventListener("click", event => {
// š§ your onClick script...
alert("button clicked");
});
})();
Codepen here
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It works perfectly. Great thanks, Anthony!
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Im trying to use this method to obfiscate (=confuse) email searching spam bots.
So the user should click on the button and it generates the emailaddress and executes the mailto: method. Trouble is, its displaying the mailto:info@test.com on a new page. Clicking that will call the mail client up buit I need/want to have it go straight to the client.
This is what I have:
I gave my button an ID and put this code on the page
<script type="text/javascript">
(function clickMe() {
const button = document.getElementById("HumanContactButton");
button.addEventListener("click", event => {
// š§ your onClick script...
<!-- Begin
user = "info";
domain = "mysite.com";
document.write('E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:' + user + '@' + domain + '\">' +
user + '@' + domain + '</a>');
// End -->
// alert("button clicked");
});
})();
</script>
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Since jQuery registers globally, you can use it within any other script file you import after jQuery. Example is a javascript UI. If you import a script file before jQuery, jQuery will not be available at load, but it will be available inside functions called after jQuery has been loaded.
Might be the most stupid question but: How do I give Buttons an ID?
Hi Anthony, any chance of re-publishing of your code pen here.
Cheers, Ru
sure, there you go: https://codepen.io/anthonysalamin/pen/LYpJjBW
Great thanks!
I have had a look at this and my basic JS skills have failed me.
I canāt work out the syntax to now input the JS (below) to play my video into your eventListenerā¦
var vid = document.getElementById("video-animation");
function playVid() {
vid.play();
I have also published a codepen which shows the HTML for the video with a simple button and have commented out the above JS in between the eventListenerās brackets.
Any help would be massively appreciatedā¦I am also interested if you could use the custom attribute of the button to execute this (but understanding this is for another day)
Hi @kohru,
You donāt need to add another function within the click eventListener, simply add your play() method. I would also execute the function once the DOM has finished loading. Right now, you are loading a video from your Google Drive which is relatively slow on my end. Once the video has loaded, your āplay clickā function is ready.
Here is the updated codepen
Here is the updated javascript you could use:
// š§ on DOM ready, execute playVideo function
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => {
playVideo();
});
// š§ playVideo function definition
function playVideo() {
const button = document.getElementById("btn"),
video = document.getElementById("video");
// š§ click event listener
button.addEventListener("click", () => {
video.play();
});
}
thanks for this @anthonysalamin that does make more sense and I like the on the DOM ready function. Your codepen updated link is producing a 404ā¦could you relink/publish for me. Slowly learning JS which is exciting but also quite mind-boggling!
Thanks for lending your ninja skills!
There you go:
https://codepen.io/anthonysalamin/pen/pojQrKO
Feel free to fork the codepen, as this one is only temporary and will be deleted soon.
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Great. Super helpful, cheers.
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I have a similar situation, where Iām attempting to add javascript to a button that launches a modal window. Iāve given it a solid effort based on the advice from this thread, but donāt speak proficiently enough in javascript to be able to fully understand how to customize the code provided by @anthonysalamin to my situation.
Iām including a read-only link to the project and will briefly explain what Iām attempting to do, in case anyone has a moment to look into this. I suspect itās an easy integration for someone with more competency than myself.
When clicking any of the buttons at the top of the page (reserve a spot, get involved, get in touch) the desired action is to launch a modal window with an embedded VideoAsk widget. Hereās some code that I found that someone wrote for this very function.
Iāve added the this script to the
<script src="https://www.videoask.it/embed/embed.js"></script>
Iāve added this script to the
But Iām not sure how to add the following javascript to the link in the Webflow editor since thereās no way (that Iāve found) to actually edit the raw HTML
<a href="javascript:void(videoask.loadModal({url: 'https://www.videoask.com/fn5pz0q1v', options: { modalType: 'Fullscreen'}}))">
Click this link to show the fullscreen modal
</a>
@Devin_Lyttle sure, I had a quick look and neither did I understand the codepen you provided so I rewrote it quickly from scratch. All you need to do is add a custom data attribute ādata-urlā and provide your videoask video ID. The JavaScript snipet will then listen on button click and get that id to inject it into the modal constructor.
Here is the quick codepen for you.
Here is a quick screenrecording I did.
HTML
<a class="button" data-url="fn5pz0q1v" href="">
reserve a spot
</a>
<a class="button" data-url="fn5pz0q1v" href="">
get involved
</a>
<a class="button" data-url="fn5pz0q1v" href="">
get in touch
</a>
<!-- videoask API -->
<script src="https://www.videoask.it/embed/embed.js"></script>
JavaScript
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => {
// globals
const log = console.log,
fullscreen = false, // set to true if you want fullscreen modal
buttons = document.getElementsByClassName("button"),
domain = "https://www.videoask.com/";
Array.from(buttons).forEach((button) => {
button.addEventListener("click", (event) => {
event.preventDefault();
const id = button.dataset.url;
log(id);
videoask.loadModal({
url: `${domain}${id}`,
options: {
modalType: fullscreen ? "Fullscreen" : "Side"
} // end options
}); // end videoask.loadmodal
}); // end click listener
}); // end Array.from
}); // end DOM
Hope that helps
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Youāre a legend @anthonysalamin - really appreciate you taking the time to look into this! However, Iām afraid you give me far too much credit that I actually know what Iām doing with this code 
In the Webflow editor I see two options for custom code: āInside tagā and āBefore tagā. Iāve tried adding the code to both sections and assigned a ādata-urlā value of āfn5pz0q1vā to each button (which Iām assuming is what I would replace to have it load the correct video?), yet it doesnāt seem to want to launch the modal. I thought it had something to do with the class name, since the links Iām launching the model from donāt have a ābuttonā class; so I tried changing it to āgetElementByIdā instead, so I could target the specific links, but still no luck. Iām not seeing anything else obvious, so Iām assuming that I just have the code entered into the wrong place.
No worries, yes you just forgot to wrap the javascript code inside its <script> tags 
Just copy the following code and paste it in the ābefore the end of the body tagā custom code section, not in the head custom code section.
<!-- videoask API -->
<script src="https://www.videoask.it/embed/embed.js"></script>
<!-- videoask snipet -->
<script>
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => {
// globals
const log = console.log,
fullscreen = false, // set to true if you want fullscreen modal
buttons = document.getElementsByClassName("button"),
domain = "https://www.videoask.com/";
Array.from(buttons).forEach((button) => {
button.addEventListener("click", (event) => {
event.preventDefault();
const id = button.dataset.url;
log(id);
videoask.loadModal({
url: `${domain}${id}`,
options: {
modalType: fullscreen ? "Fullscreen" : "Side"
} // end options
}); // end videoask.loadmodal
}); // end click listener
}); // end Array.from
}); // end DOM
</script>
as for the classes, simply replace the ābuttonā class in the javascript snipet by whateber class you use in webflow. That should do the trick.
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Amazing, thanks! Got it working, but am having an issue now where all classes with that name (link-with-arrow) are launching a modal. I tried reverting back to using ādocument.getElementById(āsupportā)ā but that doesnāt seem to be working. Is there another way that you would recommend handling this?