start/play embedded (iframe) youtube-video on click of an image

Question

I\'m trying to start playing an embedded youtube video by clicking an image. The idea is to have an image on top of a video, and when the image is clicked it fades out and s

Answer 1

You can do this simply like this

$('#image_id').click(function() {
  $("#some_id iframe").attr('src', $("#some_id iframe", parent).attr('src') + '?autoplay=1'); 
});

where image_id is your image id you are clicking and some_id is id of div in which iframe is also you can use iframe id directly.