The Microsoft Edge web browser's default setting to autoplay video and other media content can be a real nuissance. In many instances it both creates a poor user experience and also burns up server resources needlessly.
This autoplay problem is pretty unique to Microsoft Edge and doesn't affect other browsers such as FireFox and Chrome which respect that autoplay is set to none by default. As such, this quirk of Microsoft Edge can take you by surprise.
When we started looking into solutions to the problem of Edge autoplay we noticed both that a lot of other people were looking for the HTML code solution to prevent Microsoft Edge video autoplay and that they were having varying degrees of success with the solutions that they were provided with. So, we thought it might be useful to post an article showing what worked for us.
We went for a rather simple HTML coding solution to stop our videos autoplaying in Microsoft Edge and opted to prevent the web browser from preloading video content by setting the preload attrbiute (preload="none").
This method stops the video from autoplaying in Microsoft Edge but the result is consequently quite plain as you can see.
In order to get around this in HTML we used the 'poster' attribute to add an image to display when the video is not playing. This adds an image place holder where the video's first frame would usually be displayed when it isn't playing.
For this example we've used a pando photo, but you could also simply take a screenshot of the opening frame, name it, re-size it and then link to it using the HTML poster attribute.
To demonstrate the HTML video poster attribute in action we used a short free for commercial use video from Pixabay.
Here's the HTML code:
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