Controls.currentPosition

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The currentPosition property specifies or retrieves the current position in the media item in seconds from the beginning.

player.controls.currentPosition
      

Possible Values

This property is a read/write Number (double).

Examples

The following example uses currentPosition to seek to a position provided by the user. An HTML BUTTON element is created to execute the JScript code. An HTML TEXT input element, named setPosition, was created to accept a value, in seconds, from the user. The Player object was created with ID = "Player".

<INPUT TYPE = "BUTTON"  ID = "Set"  NAME = "Set"  VALUE = "Set Position"

    /* Check to be sure the TEXT element contains a valid value. */
    if (!isNaN(setPosition.value) && (setPosition.value != '))

    /* Set the current position when the user clicks the button. */
    onClick = "Player.controls.currentPosition = setPosition.value;
">

Requirements

See also

Controls Object