HTML5 Video muted but still playing

Question

Title pretty much says it all. I have a video which automatically starts playing when arriving on the page.

In the HTML code I have put muted=\"muted\". And here comes

Answer 1

I'm not entirely sure as to why the muted attribute is malfunctioning when defined within the video tag. However, this is what you can do :

Firstly, remove the muted="muted" attribute from the video tag. Keep it simply as :

Now, define a function that on loading of the page, mutes the video.

window.onload = function () {
    var element = document.getElementById('video');
    element.muted = "muted";
}

I have verified this, and it works.