In this web development tutorial, we’ll build a responsive video background using HTML and CSS and make sure that it fills the page background and scales to fit as the browser size changes.

00:00 Intro
00:40 What you’ll need
01:23 Getting the video on the page
02:03 Placing the video in the background
02:43 Putting content on top of the video
03:37 Fixing the aspect ratio
04:10 Adding an overlay
05:05 Using a static image on mobile
05:50 Stop the video playing when not in view
08:01 Compressing the video

Love them or hate them video backgrounds certainly can add a unique appearance to your landing page or app and in this tutorial, I’m going to show you how you can create a web page that has a video background that is responsive and scales to fit the user’s browser.

We’re also going to look at a few other things as well like making sure the video isn’t playing when not visible to the user, saving precious processor resources, replacing the video background entirely on small mobile devices and also compressing the video file as much as we can to save the user’s bandwidth – something they’ll thank you for when their data allowance isn’t eaten up by your website design choices.

So let’s take a look at how to code a responsive video background.

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