Jquery/html5 Modal Video If Autoplay Is Present Play Video

To make it easier to understand please take a look at the Codepen: http://codepen.io/hennysmafter/pen/YqmLKR The codepen is a simpler version of the actual code with only the parts

Solution 1:

You've two somewhat common mistakes: You only used 1 equals sign in the part where you check if autoplay is true.

A single = is used for setting variables where as two is used for checking equality.

Edit: You are also attempting to use traditional HTML style attribute checking on a jQuery object. To check an attribute in jQuery, you need to use .attr(attributeName)

Therefore, the correct line would be if ($('.modal-box.opened').find('video').attr(autoplay) == true) {