HTML Video Tag

HTML 5 supports <video> tag also. The HTML video tag is used for streaming video files such as a movie clip, song clip on the web page.

Currently, there are three video formats supported for HTML video tag:

1. mp4
2. webM
3. ogg

Let's see the table that defines which web browser supports video file format.

Browser	mp4	webM	ogg
Internet Explorer	yes	no	no
Google Chrome	yes	yes	yes
Mozilla Firefox	yes	yes	yes
Opera	no	yes	yes
Apple Safari	yes	no	no

Android also supports mp4 format.

HTML Video Tag Example

Let's see the code to play mp4 file using HTML video tag.

Let's see the example to play ogg file using HTML video tag.

Supporting Browsers

Element	Chrome	IE	Firefox	Opera	Safari
<video>	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Attributes of HTML Video Tag

Let's see the list of HTML 5 video tag attributes.

HTML Video Tag Attribute Example

Let's see the example of video tag in HTML where are using height, width, autoplay, controls and loop attributes.

MIME Types for HTML Video format

The available MIME type HTML video tag is given below.