Welcome to Modern Video Background
Fullscreen background has become very popular in web design lately. Fullscreen images used as backgrounds have an amazing visual impact, but did you know that you can use video background in exactly the same way?
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Fullscreen HTML5 Page Background Video
Creating a Fullscreen HTML5 Video Background with CSS
Video is probably the number one way to draw attention. A good video background can easily make people stop and take notice, increasing the time they spend on the site. This extended time on the site could potentially lead to more interaction with other content on the page.
In fact it can be done using only CSS only. CSS background and background-image properties only accept colours, gradients, bitmaps & SVG as values.
Video backgrounds are something we see more and more all over the web and can be a great way to improve your website’s look, making it more appealing to your visitors. The idea is to have the video covering all the background like an image. The problem is that is not possible to use CSS rules like background-size: cover because this rule only accepts images, so we’ll have to find another way.
We create a simple CSS Slider Click here
element with loop, autoplay and muted attributes and place it inside a container element. The image used in a poster attribute will be replaced by the first frame of the video when it loads. Therefore it’s good practice to use the first frame of a video for a poster image.
Pulling off the video background effect is pretty simple
element with loop, autoplay and muted attributes and place it inside a container element. The image used in a poster attribute will be replaced by the first frame of the video when it loads. Therefore it’s good practice to use the first frame of a video for a poster image.
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