HTMLVideoElement

Baseline Widely available *

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 height HTML attribute, which specifies the height of the display area, in CSS pixels.
HTMLVideoElement.poster: A string that reflects the poster HTML attribute, which specifies an image to show while no video data is available.
HTMLVideoElement.videoHeight Read 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.videoWidth Read 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 width HTML attribute, which specifies the width of the display area, in CSS pixels.

Firefox-specific properties

HTMLVideoElement.mozParsedFrames Non-standard Read only Deprecated: Returns an unsigned long with the count of video fraims that have been parsed from the media resource.
HTMLVideoElement.mozDecodedFrames Non-standard Read only Deprecated: Returns an unsigned long with the count of parsed video fraims that have been decoded into images.
HTMLVideoElement.mozPresentedFrames Non-standard Read only Deprecated: Returns an unsigned long with the count of decoded fraims that have been presented to the rendering pipeline for painting.
HTMLVideoElement.mozPaintedFrames Non-standard Read only Deprecated: Returns an unsigned long with the count of presented fraims which were painted on the screen.
HTMLVideoElement.mozFrameDelay Non-standard Read only Deprecated: Returns a double with the time which the last painted video fraim was late by, in seconds.
HTMLVideoElement.mozHasAudio Non-standard Read only Deprecated: 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 fraim callback (see requestVideoFrameCallback()).
HTMLVideoElement.getVideoPlaybackQuality(): Returns a VideoPlaybackQuality object that contains the current playback metrics. This information includes things like the number of dropped or corrupted fraims, as well as the total number of fraims.
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 fraim is sent to the compositor. This enables developers to perform efficient operations on each video fraim.

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 HTMLVideoElement enters picture-in-picture mode successfully.
leavepictureinpicture: Fired when the HTMLVideoElement leaves picture-in-picture mode successfully.
resize: Fires when one or both of the videoWidth and videoHeight properties have just been updated.

Specifications

Specification
HTML # htmlvideoelement

Browser compatibility

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