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title: HTML: video, audio, source
slug: html-video-audio-source
published_at: 2020-07-27 21:45:51 +0000
updated_at: 2026-03-04 20:14:52 +0000
summary:
description:
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views: 1989
author: CJ Avilla
url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/html-video-audio-source
youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOUNDWqdTJM
youtube_id: WOUNDWqdTJM
embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/WOUNDWqdTJM
thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WOUNDWqdTJM/hqdefault.jpg
type: video
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# HTML: video, audio, source
*Published: July 27, 2020*
*Views: 1989*
## Watch
[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOUNDWqdTJM)
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOUNDWqdTJM)
## Description
## Transcript
all right let's dig into some more rich media controls we have both video and audio that we want to look at today so the video html tag is pretty simple it looks just like this we have a video tag and inside we give it a source tag that has a src attribute that points at our video source mp3 file now this could be some file out on the web it could also be some file that you have locally so i have a local file in this same directory called earth.mp4 and so i'm going to save that and refresh the page and so this is the video here but there's no way to sort of control the video so there's an attribute on video called controls again this is a binary attribute there's no value for it we just say controls and then refresh the page and we have some video controls we could click play and that shows our little movie uh in the browser the video in the browser that's pretty common for like those hero images in the background you might remove the controls and autoplay this thing when it starts now by default you should be able to say auto play and that would start the the video immediately similarly we have audio we have an audio tag and again inside we have a source tag and it will have an src attribute which points at some audio so i have another file called song.mp3 and if we just save that and again we want controls we can refresh the page and now we have an audio file if we click play there we can hear sort of like hear the music from that song and that is how we add both video and audio controls and that really wraps up all of the html that i want to cover the next couple things we'll go into is a little tiny bit of css and then some javascript so css is not my favorite but we'll go we'll go over how to make things um how to how to at least target some elements how to add css classes to html so that you might want to like style them but um yeah so that's what we'll go into next so uh stay tuned but that's that's kind of the end of the uh the html bits so hopefully that was helpful um there's uh we'll share tons of resources in in the description if you wanted to go check those out but um that really kind of covers and wraps up all of the html that i want to cover in this super basic beginner intro to html so hopefully that was helpful
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