This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The play()
method of the Web Animations API's Animation
Interface starts or resumes playing of an animation. If the animation is finished, calling play()
restarts the animation, playing it from the beginning.
Syntax
animation.play();
Parameters
None.
Return value
Example
In the Growing/Shrinking Alice Game example, clicking or tapping the cake causes Alice's growing animation (aliceChange
) to play forward, causing her to get bigger, as well as triggering the cake's animation. Two Animation.play()
s, one EventListener
:
// The cake has its own animation: var nommingCake = document.getElementById('eat-me_sprite').animate( [ { transform: 'translateY(0)' }, { transform: 'translateY(-80%)' } ], { fill: 'forwards', easing: 'steps(4, end)', duration: aliceChange.effect.timing.duration / 2 }); // Pause the cake's animation so it doesn't play immediately. nommingCake.pause(); // This function will play when ever a user clicks or taps var growAlice = function() { // Play Alice's animation. aliceChange.play(); // Play the cake's animation. nommingCake.play(); } // When a user holds their mouse down or taps, call growAlice to make all the animations play. cake.addEventListener("mousedown", growAlice, false); cake.addEventListener("touchstart", growAlice, false);
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
Web Animations The definition of 'play()' in that specification. |
Working Draft |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
play | Chrome Full support 39 | Edge Full support ≤79 | Firefox
Full support
48
| IE No support No | Opera Full support 26 | Safari No support No | WebView Android Full support 39 | Chrome Android Full support 39 | Firefox Android
Full support
48
| Opera Android Full support 26 | Safari iOS No support No | Samsung Internet Android Full support 4.0 |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- User must explicitly enable this feature.
- User must explicitly enable this feature.
See also
- Web Animations API
Animation
for other methods and properties you can use to control web page animation.Animation.pause()
to pause an animation.Animation.reverse()
to play an animation backwards.Animation.finish()
to finish an animation.Animation.cancel()
to cancel an animation.