HTML5 video - show/hide controls programmatically

Question

I am looking for a way to show or hide HTML5 video controls at will via javascript. The controls are currently only visible when the video starts to play

Is there a

Answer 1

CARL LANGE also showed how to get hidden, autoplaying audio in html5 on a iOS device. Works for me.

In HTML,

with JS

In CSS,

#hideme {display: none;}