Inserting Video in HTML5: What You Need to Know

Inserting videos into HTML5 isn't difficult. Here's a detailed guide on how to add videos to your HTML website.

Video and audio on the web

The initial boom in online video and audio was driven by proprietary plugin-based technologies like Flash and Silverlight. Both technologies suffered from security and accessibility issues and are now obsolete, giving way to native HTML solutions.

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Explanation of the above example:

- The controls property in the example above will add video controls, such as: play, pause, zoom, and volume.

- You should add the width and height attributes to ensure that the video frame will be fixed during site loading.

- The source element allows you to specify alternative video files that the browser can choose from. By default, the browser will use the first recognized format.

- The text content between tags will only be displayed when running on browsers that do not support tags.

Note : In most cases, Chromium-based browsers do not allow autoplay. If they do, the video will always be muted when playing automatically.

Add "muted" after "autoplay" so your video will always autoplay (but with the sound muted):

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