Click the poster image the HTML5 video plays?

Question

I have an HTML5 video with a poster attribute. I would like to somehow set it up so that you can click on anywhere on the video element (the area of the poster image) and it

Answer 1

Posted this here too but this applies to this thread too.

I had countless issues doing this but finally came up with a solution that works.

Basically the code below is adding a click handler to the video but ignoring all the clicks on the lower part (0.82 is arbitrary but seems to work on all sizes).

$("video").click(function(e){

    // handle click if not Firefox (Firefox supports this feature natively)
    if (typeof InstallTrigger === 'undefined') {

        // get click position 
        var clickY = (e.pageY - $(this).offset().top);
        var height = parseFloat( $(this).height() );

        // avoids interference with controls
        if (clickY > 0.82*height) return;

        // toggles play / pause
        this.paused ? this.play() : this.pause();
    }
});