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HTML Video and Audio

79-minute HTML Course

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About this Course

Text and images have always been the foundation of web content, but more than ever, video and audio are also a part of that content mix. Fortunately, we can now create standards-based video and audio players that don't require the use of plugins. Adding video and audio to a webpage is almost as easy as adding an image or formatting some text.

What you'll learn

  • Video element
  • Audio element
  • Custom media players

Media Basics

In this course, we're going to spend most of our time focusing on the video and audio elements. We'll learn about a few others, but those two allow us to embed video and sound content into webpages.

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Captioning Video

If you've ever watched a foreign film in a language you don't speak, you've probably seen text down at the bottom of the screen. That text is called captions, or subtitles. It's always a good idea to caption videos, whether it's for people with hearing impairments, people that are in a public space and don't have headphones with them, or for people that just can't quite understand what you're saying. Even if there's no spoken text in a video, it's still nice to point out sound effects and music, or even highlight the absence of sound.

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Teacher

  • Nick Pettit

    Nick is a teacher and an independent game developer.

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