“Media”

Topic Overview

The Building Blocks of Pages

Page Structure and Extra Markup Identifying with ids Styling with Classes Grouping with Divs Sectioning with Spans Building a Page (Step-by-Step) TODO

Iframes

The 3-Part Iframe Element 1. The <iframe> Tags 2. Source 3. Width and Height Review: The Iframe Element Websites in the Iframe Element Maps in the Iframe Element Media in the Iframe Element TODO

The Meta Element

The Meta Element Character Set Attribute Description Attribute Author Attribute Keywords Attribute Viewport Element Review: Meta Elements TODO

Escape Characters

Solving Conflicts with Escape Characters Escape Character Names Escape Character Codes Common Escape Characters TODO

Media Management

Media on the Web Sourcing Images Sourcing Video Sourcing Audio Optimizing for the Web Media Hosting and Storage TODO

Images

Adding Images in HTML The 5-Part Image Element 1. The <img> Tag 2. Source 3. Alternative Text 4. Title 5. Width and Height Review: The Image Element Formats and Browser Support TODO

Video

Adding Video in HTML The 5-Part Video Element 1. The <video> Tags 2. Source 3. Poster 4. Width and Height 5. Other Attributes Review: The Video Element Formats and Browser Support TODO

Audio

Adding Audio in HTML The 3-Part Audio Element 1. The <audio> Tags 2. Source 3. Other Attributes Review: The Audio Element Formats and Browser Support TODO

Adding Video in HTML

There are two ways to approach adding video to your site: self-hosted (within your own directory and repository), or via a video-sharing service, like YouTube or Vimeo.

Self-Hosted Video

The <video> element allows developers to add a video player to webpages. This is a new element to HTML5, and offers three supported video formats: .mp4, .webm, and .ogg.

The video element can be used to add a self-hosted video file to your site, and allows for both single-instances and fallback files to be referenced in the element.

Service-Hosted Video

To embed a video from a video-sharing service, use their provided embed code, which often utilizes the <iframe> element discussed previously in this Topic.

The following is an example for YouTube:

animation of finding the embed code of a YouTube video