HTMLVideoElement

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 ancestor interfaces, HTMLMediaElement, and HTMLElement.

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.
HTMLVideoElement.disablePictureInPicture: The disablePictureInPicture property will hint the user agent to not suggest the picture-in-picture to users or to request it automatically

Gecko-specific properties

HTMLVideoElement.mozParsedFrames Non-standard Read only Deprecated: Returns an unsigned long with the count of video frames 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 frames that have been decoded into images.
HTMLVideoElement.mozPresentedFrames Non-standard Read only Deprecated: Returns an unsigned long with the count of decoded frames 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 frames which were painted on the screen.
HTMLVideoElement.mozFrameDelay Non-standard Read only Deprecated: Returns an double with the time which the last painted video frame 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, HTMLMediaElement, and from its ancestor HTMLElement.

HTMLVideoElement.getVideoPlaybackQuality(): Returns a VideoPlaybackQuality object 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 make video enters picture-in-picture mode

Events

Inherits events from its parent, HTMLMediaElement, and from its ancestor HTMLElement. Listen to these events using addEventListener() or by assigning an event listener to the oneventname property of this interface.

enterpictureinpicture: Sent to a HTMLVideoElement when it enters Picture-in-Picture mode.
leavepictureinpicture: Sent to a HTMLVideoElement when it leaves Picture-in-Picture mode.

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard # htmlvideoelement

Browser compatibility

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