HTML Element: <video>
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The HTML <video> element indicates a video
or movie. It is new in HTML 5. Currently there are 3 supported video formats
across most browsers: MP4 (i.e. MPEG 4 files with H264 video codec and AAC
audio codec, MIME-type is video/mp4), WebM (i.e. WebM files with V8 video codec
and Vorbis audio codec, MIME-type is video/webm) and Ogg (Ogg files with Theora
video codec and Vorbis audio codec, MIME-type is video/ogg).
If
the browser does not support <video>
elements then any text between the <video>
and </video> tags will be
displayed.
The attributes
it can take (in addition to HTML global
attributes and HTML
event attributes) are:
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Attribute
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Description
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More
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autoplay
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Specifies whether media
should start playing as soon as ready
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Here
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controls
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Whether controls (such
as play and pause buttons) should be displayed
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Here
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height
|
Height of element
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Here
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loop
|
Media to start over
again when it finishes
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Here
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muted
|
Audio output should be
muted
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Here
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poster
|
Image to be shown while
video is downloading (or until user hits play)
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Here
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preload
|
If / how author thinks media
should be loaded when page loads
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Here
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src
|
URL of media
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Here
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width
|
Width of element
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Here
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To
create or access such an element in JavaScript
see here. The
corresponding HTML DOM
object supports standard
DOM properties and methods, and additional properties with the same name and
meaning as the attributes of the underlying HTML element referred to above. It also supports DOM generic media
properties and methods and the following additional properties and methods.
Additional properties:
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Property
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Description
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More
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videoTracks
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Returns VideoTrackList object indicating available video tracks
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Here
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The default style
applicable to this element is shown here.
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