A minimal vanilla JavaScript video background plugin.
- All modern web browsers
- IE 11+
- All mobile web browsers that support autoplaying HTML5
<video>
If you plan on using vidbg.js with WordPress, make your life a little bit easier and download the plugin I made on the Wordpress Repo.
npm install vidbg.jsOr download the built vidbg.zip from GitHub
In the browser:
<!-- <head> -->
<link href="dist/vidbg.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<!-- End of <body> -->
<script src="dist/vidbg.js"></script>Or if you are working with modules:
import vidbg from "vidbg.js";The script accepts three arguments.
var instance = new vidbg(selector, options, attributes);The selector argument is any JavaScript selector, the options are for configuring vidbg.js, and the attributes argument modifies the actual <video> element.
var instance = new vidbg(
".vidbg-box",
{
mp4: "http://example.com/video.mp4", // URL or relative path to MP4 video
webm: "path/to/video.webm", // URL or relative path to webm video
poster: "path/to/fallback.jpg", // URL or relative path to fallback image
overlay: false, // Boolean to display the overlay or not
overlayColor: "#000", // The overlay color as a HEX
overlayAlpha: 0.3, // The overlay alpha. Think of this as the last integer in RGBA()
},
{
// Attributes
}
);Note: Supplying both .mp4 and .webm will increase browser compatibility.
const defaultOptions = {
mp4: null,
webm: null,
poster: null,
overlay: false,
overlayColor: "#000",
overlayAlpha: 0.3,
};const defaultAttributes = {
autoplay: true,
controls: false,
loop: true,
muted: true,
playsInline: true,
};Setting the overlay option to true will add an RGBA background over your video. This is helpful when you want to display text or meaningful content over the video background to increase legibility.
You may experience the fallback image flash on page load. This is because the fallback image is added through JavaScript. As a result of this, it will load after CSS styles are rendered.
If you'd like to combat this, you can preset the fallback image through CSS. For example, if your selector is .video-box you could do something like:
.video-box .vidbg-container {
background-image: url(/assets/link-to-fallback.png);
}Below are the methods that are available:
// First, create the vidbg.js instance.
var instance = new vidbg(".vidbg-box", {
mp4: "http://example.com/video.mp4",
webm: "path/to/video.webm",
poster: "path/to/fallback.jpg",
});
// Manually resize the video background
instance.resize();
// Manually play the video
instance.playVideo();
// Manually pause the video
instance.pauseVideo();
// Get the video playing state
instance.isVideoPlaying();
// Remove the <video> element
instance.removeVideo();
// Completely remove the video background
instance.destroy();Video and fallback image provided by Christophe Tauziet at https://vimeo.com/user27974867
vidbg.js is licensed under The MIT License. You can view it here.