HTML 5 tutorail for beginners
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<body>
<video width=”320″ height=”240″ controls>
<source src=”movie.mp4″ type=”video/mp4″>
<source src=”movie.ogg” type=”video/ogg”>
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
</body>
</html>
The <!DOCTYPE> declaration is not an HTML tag; it is an instruction to the web browser about what version of HTML the page is written in.
To show video in our website we don’t want to do anything complex, the only thing we want to do it to add the video tag. As shown in the above code and give the name of your video in the src parameter that’s all now you got your video in the web page.
Types of Video supported by <video> are
- Mp4
- Ogg
- webM
Attribute Used in <video> tages are:
| Attribute | Value | Description |
| autoplay | autoplay | Specifies that the video will start playing as soon as it is ready |
| controls | controls | Specifies that video controls should be displayed (such as a play/pause button etc). |
| height | pixels | Sets the height of the video player |
| loop | loop | Specifies that the video will start over again, every time it is finished |
| muted | muted | Specifies that the audio output of the video should be muted |
| poster | URL | Specifies an image to be shown while the video is downloading, or until the user hits the play button |
| preload | auto metadata none |
Specifies if and how the author thinks the video should be loaded when the page loads |
| src | URL | Specifies the URL of the video file |
| width | pixels | Sets the width of the video player |
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