HTML audio can't set currentTime

Question

I am using Chrome. In my dev tools console, I tried the following:

Everything works as expected except last line. Why can\'t I set currentTime

Answer 1

You need to do something like this (if you use jQuery)

$('#elem_audio').bind('canplay', function() {
  this.currentTime = 10;
});

or in Javascript

var aud = document.getElementById("elem_audio");
aud.oncanplay = function() {
    aud.currentTime = 10;
};

The reason behind for this setup is you need to make sure the audio is ready to play.