This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Anjan Shomooder
In this blog you will learn how to add a video background to your landing page to make it more gorgeous.
Preview:
Requirements:
- Basic HTML & CSS knowledge
- Basic Javascript(Optional. only required for the navigation toggle effect)
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source code: https://github.com/thatanjan/video-background-landing-page-yt
Starter code
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
<title>Taylor Swift</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="nav.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="content.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="responsive.css" />
</head>
<body>
This is body
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Let's add the video and overlay to html.
<section class="video_container">
<video src="./media/background.mp4" autoplay loop muted></video>
<div class="overlay"></div>
</section>
Result:
Explanation:
- A video container to contain the video and overlay.
- Video will be started automatically with a loop. It will also be muted.
Css reset
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
body {
max-width: 100vw;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
Explanation:
- The entire webpage should not be bigger than the screen width.
- Webpage will not have any horizontal scrolling.
Let's style the video:
.video_container {
min-height: 100vh;
max-height: 100vh;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
}
.video_container video {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
object-fit: cover;
object-position: center;
}
Result:
Explanation:
- The video container is taking the full width of the screen without any overflow. It is also positioned as
relative. - Actual video is positioned
absoluteand aligned with the container. It is also taking the full height and width.
If you have confusion with Css position then you can watch this video.
- To make the video fit, we need to use
object-fittocover. - If the user adjusts screen width, the user will always see the center of the video because of
object-position: center;.
Let's style the overlay.
:root {
--primary-red: #70000e;
}
.overlay {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background: var(--primary-red);
mix-blend-mode: soft-light;
}
Result:
Explanation:
- Overlay element is aligned with the container using position
absolute. - The background color is stored inside a variable. If you don't know about css variable, then you can check out this blog
- Overlay has been blended with the background using a blend mode. We need to use
mix-blend-modeproperty to do so. I will usesoft-lightas value. You can learn aboutmix-blend-modefrom here
And that's how you add a video background to a landing page to make it more gorgeous. If you want to learn how the rest of the project was made please watch the video.
source code: https://github.com/thatanjan/video-background-landing-page-yt
Final result:
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This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Anjan Shomooder
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