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Learn about HTML5 Media Elements

Introduction

There were nearly negligible media elements in previous versions of HTML, yet those were still very helpful and handy. With the rise of HTML5, several media elements have also come into the light.

These media elements will change the entire scenario of designing and development using HTML. This article will provide an introduction and a little description of these elements.

Media Elements

The following are the 5 most popular media elements.

Audio

  • The audio element is used for defining or creating a music element in your simple HTML page.
  • It supports all browsers like Internet Explorer 9.0 and above, Chrome, Opera, Firefox, and Safari.
  • This tag defines music or any other audio stream formats.

Attributes Audio

Attributes

Audio

Description

Value

Code Snippet

<html>
   <head>
      <title>Audio Player | HTML5 </title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <audio controls>
         <source src="1.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
         <source src="2.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
         <source src="3.amr" type="audio/amr">
         <source src="4.amr" type="audio/amr">
      </audio>
   </body>
</html>

Outcome

Video

The Video element creates a video element in your HTML page. It supports all browsers like Internet Explorer 9.0 and above, Chrome, Opera, Firefox, and Safari. This tag defines music or any other video stream formats.

Attributes Video

Attributes Video

Video

There are the following 3 attributes in video elements that are not available in audio.

  • Height
  • Width
  • Poster

Code Snippet

<html>
   <head>
      <title>Video Player </title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <video controls>
         <source src="1.mp4" type="video/mp4">
         <source src="2.mp4" type="video/mp4">
         <source src="3.flv" type="video/flv">
         <source src="4.flv" type="video/flv">
      </video>
   </body>
</html>

Outcome

Outcome

Track

This element is useful in both the previous elements of AUDIO and VIDEO. This element defines tracks or we can say simple sectors for the <audio> and <video> elements.

AttributeTrack

Attribute Track

Track

Code Snippet

<html>
   <head>
      <title>Video Player | HTML5 </title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <video controls>
         <source src="1.mp4" type="video/mp4">
         <source src="2.mp4" type="video/mp4">
         <source src="3.flv" type="video/flv">
         <source src="4.flv" type="video/flv">
         <track src="sub1.srt" kind="subtitle" srclang="jap" label="jap">
         <track src="sub2.srt" kind="subtitle" srclang="eng" label="eng">
         <track src="sub3.srt" kind="subtitle" srclang="ger" label="ger">
         <track src="sub4.srt" kind="subtitle" srclang="rus" label="rus">
      </video>
   </body>
</html>

Outcome

Result

Source

Like the track element, the Source element must be used in <audio> and <video> elements to do the control property and structure of the tracks.

Attributes Source

Attributes Source

Code Snippet

<audio controls>
    <source src="1.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
    <source src="2.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
    <source src="3.amr" type="audio/amr">
    <source src="4.amr" type="audio/amr">
</audio>

Embed

It is also called a container because as the name suggests it is used for defining containers for external applications or we can say plug-ins for the applications.

Attribute Embed

Attribute Embed

Code Snippet

<html>
   <head>
      <title>Flash Content | HTML5 </title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <embed src="1.swf">
   </body>
</html>

Conclusion

In this article, we studied HTML5 Media Elements


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