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HTML HTML Video and Audio (Retired) Custom Media Players Create a Custom Skin

Andrew Jensen-Battaglia
Andrew Jensen-Battaglia
10,051 Points
Posted by Andrew Jensen-Battaglia
Andrew Jensen-Battaglia
10,051 Points

Why isn't custom skin being applied?

I made all the same changes that were shown to treehouse-skin.html and typed up the CSS in mejs-treehouse.css but when I preview the page none the custom skin is applied; it's just the browser default player that shows. Here's my code: 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>HTML Video and Audio</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Nunito:400,300' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

    <script src="mejs/jquery.js"></script>
    <script src="mejs/mediaelement-and-player.min.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="mejs/mediaelementplayer.min.css">

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/mejs-treehouse.css">
  </head>
  <body>

    <h1>HTML Video and Audio</h1>

    <div class="wrapper">

      <h2>Video Example</h2>

      <video class="mejs-treehouse" width="852" height="480" controls>
        <source src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge.mp4" type="video/mp4">
        <source src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge.ogg" type="video/ogg">
        <track label="English" kind="subtitles" srclang="en" src="bridge-captions.vtt" default>
      </video>

      <h2>Audio Example</h2>

      <audio class="mejs-treehouse" controls>
        <source src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge-audio.mp3" type="audio/mp3">
      </audio>


    </div>

    <script>
      $("audio,video").mediaelementplayer({
        success: function(player, node) {
          $("#" + node.id + "-mode").html("mode: " + player.pluginType);
        },
        features: ["playpause", "tracks", "progress"]
        startLanguage: "en",
        translationSelector: true
      });
    </script>

  </body>
</html>
Charlie Mudrick
Charlie Mudrick
9,221 Points

You may have overlooked the browser tab you were working under.

I made the mistake of refreshing the simple-video.html in my browser (which had the same content copy pasted over to treehouse-skin.html), and this caused the refresh problem.

Reloaded the treehouse-skin.html and it worked as planned. A common mistake I surmise if you are following along with the course sequence.

1 Answer

Paulo Marques
Paulo Marques
22,845 Points
Paulo Marques
Paulo Marques
22,845 Points

Hello Andrew,

I've found one mistake on your code, you forgot a comma before 'startLanguage'.

<script>
      $("audio,video").mediaelementplayer({
        success: function(player, node) {
          $("#" + node.id + "-mode").html("mode: " + player.pluginType);
        },
        features: ["playpause", "tracks", "progress"],
        startLanguage: "en",
        translationSelector: true
      });
    </script>

Best regards,