HTMLVideoElement
Baseline
Widely available
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This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.
Implemented by the <video> element, the HTMLVideoElement interface provides special properties and methods for manipulating video objects. It also inherits properties and methods of HTMLMediaElement and HTMLElement.
The list of supported media formats varies from one browser to the other. You should either provide your video in a single format that all the relevant browsers supports, or provide multiple video sources in enough different formats that all the browsers you need to support are covered.
Instance properties
Inherits properties from its parent interface, HTMLMediaElement, and HTMLElement.
HTMLVideoElement.disablePictureInPicture-
Indicates if the user agent should suggest the picture-in-picture to users, or not.
HTMLVideoElement.height-
A string that reflects the
heightHTML attribute, which specifies the height of the display area, in CSS pixels. HTMLVideoElement.poster-
A string that reflects the
posterHTML attribute, which specifies an image to show while no video data is available. HTMLVideoElement.videoHeightRead only-
Returns an unsigned integer value indicating the intrinsic height of the resource in CSS pixels, or 0 if no media is available yet.
HTMLVideoElement.videoWidthRead only-
Returns an unsigned integer value indicating the intrinsic width of the resource in CSS pixels, or 0 if no media is available yet.
HTMLVideoElement.width-
A string that reflects the
widthHTML attribute, which specifies the width of the display area, in CSS pixels.
Firefox-specific properties
HTMLVideoElement.mozParsedFramesRead only-
Returns an
unsigned longwith the count of video frames that have been parsed from the media resource. HTMLVideoElement.mozDecodedFramesRead only-
Returns an
unsigned longwith the count of parsed video frames that have been decoded into images. HTMLVideoElement.mozPresentedFramesRead only-
Returns an
unsigned longwith the count of decoded frames that have been presented to the rendering pipeline for painting. HTMLVideoElement.mozPaintedFramesRead only-
Returns an
unsigned longwith the count of presented frames which were painted on the screen. HTMLVideoElement.mozFrameDelayRead only-
Returns a
doublewith the time which the last painted video frame was late by, in seconds. HTMLVideoElement.mozHasAudioRead only-
Returns a boolean indicating if there is some audio associated with the video.
Instance methods
Inherits methods from its parent interface, HTMLMediaElement, and HTMLElement.
HTMLVideoElement.cancelVideoFrameCallback()-
Cancels a previously-registered video frame callback (see
requestVideoFrameCallback()). HTMLVideoElement.getVideoPlaybackQuality()-
Returns a
VideoPlaybackQualityobject that contains the current playback metrics. This information includes things like the number of dropped or corrupted frames, as well as the total number of frames. HTMLVideoElement.requestPictureInPicture()-
Requests that the user agent enters the video into picture-in-picture mode.
HTMLVideoElement.requestVideoFrameCallback()-
Registers a callback function that runs when a new video frame is sent to the compositor. This enables developers to perform efficient operations on each video frame.
Events
Inherits events from its parent interface, HTMLMediaElement, and HTMLElement.
Listen to these events using addEventListener() or by assigning an event listener to the oneventname property of this interface.
enterpictureinpicture-
Fired when the
HTMLVideoElemententers picture-in-picture mode successfully. leavepictureinpicture-
Fired when the
HTMLVideoElementleaves picture-in-picture mode successfully. resize-
Fires when one or both of the
videoWidthandvideoHeightproperties have just been updated.
Specifications
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cancelVideoFrameCallback
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disablePictureInPicture
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enterpictureinpicture event
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getVideoPlaybackQuality
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leavepictureinpicture event
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mozDecodedFrames
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mozHasAudio
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mozPresentedFrames
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poster
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requestPictureInPicture
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requestVideoFrameCallback
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resize event
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videoHeight
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Legend
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- Full support
- Full support
- Partial support
- Partial support
- No support
- No support
- Non-standard. Check cross-browser support before using.
- Deprecated. Not for use in new websites.
- See implementation notes.
- Has more compatibility info.
See also
- HTML element implementing this interface:
<video>. - Supported media formats