Why does setting currentTime of HTML5 video element reset time in Chrome?

Question

I want to set the time position of a video in HTML5. The time should be set like this:

function settime(){
    var video = document.getElementById(\"video1\"         


        

Answer 1

I finally figured out an answer! Chrome requires you to set the currentTime as a String, and not as a number.

function settime() {
    var video = document.getElementById("video1");
    console.log(video.currentTime); // output 0
    video.currentTime = 10.0;
    console.log(video.currentTime); // output 0 for some chrome users or 10 for firefox and others
    video.currentTime = "10.0";
    console.log(video.currentTime); // output 10
}

settime();

Click play to start the audio at 10 s.