FAQ: Learn HTML - Intro to HTML - Videos

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#6

How do we know what the appropriate height and width should be? What are the units for these dimensions? And how do these map onto page size?

#7

why the “Video not supported” is placed between the opening and closing of the tag ?

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#8

Why are the links in quotation marks? I removed them and the webpage works just fine.

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#9

I can not find a way to alter the video tag attributes so that the message “Video not supported” is shown. I only get the broken video placeholder in the same width and height that are specified in attributes. What must be done to see the text?

#10

I am unable to complete the Video Not Supported section of the HTMl Video section. It looks exactly like the example, just with the text the exercises want.

</video src=“https://s3.amazonaws.com/codecademy-content/courses/freelance-1/unit-1/lesson-2/htmlcss1-vid_brown-bear.mp4” width=“320” height=“240” controls>
Video Not Supported
<//video>

The duplicate /'s is there so you can see the actual text, and not the outcome of my text.

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#11

Question: Why are there quotation marks around the numbers 320 and 240 for width and height in the opening video tag? I removed them from the tag the code still works. Is this simply a coding convention?

#12

Why won’t links from youtube work when I do the video exercise.
Example
</video src=“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFFoMOPQxhg” width=“380” height=“400” controls>Video not supported<//video >

#14

I want to know this as well. For instance in the video portion of the html lesson it requests that I insert a link to the url using the video tag…but it doesn’t show the text having quotation marks, but is it just a given to always use the quotation marks when they are absent?

also, I noticed that in the same video lesson the link they wanted me to insert in the video tag ended with ```

example: https://s3.amazonaws.com/codecademy-content/courses/freelance-1/unit-1/lesson-2/htmlcss1-vid_brown-bear.mp4```

But in the actual text they showed the correct answer as leaving off the ```

This is a link to the lesson. https://www.codecademy.com/paths/web-development/tracks/learn-html-web-dev-path/modules/learn-html-elements/lessons/intro-to-html/exercises/videos-html

If you have any answers to this please let me know. I would greatly appreciate it.

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#15

What is the difference between the title attribute and the alt attribute when adding a video element to my HTML document?

#16

I would like to know the answer to this question as well, but havent found any answer yet.

#17

Did you ever get a reply or figure this out? I am having the same issue. Even went so far as to copy and paste thinking I messed up the address.

#18

Hello,
I can not display the video, in error message it says I did not create a suitcase , here is my code below: video

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<video src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/codecademy-content/courses/freelance-1/unit-1/lesson-2/htmlcss1-vid_brown-bear.mp4">
</video>

That would be the correct way, you’re putting the source of the video in the content section, which is wrong.

#20

This question was asked, but not answered. Why do we put “video not supported”?

#21

Can I use one or more <source> tags inside the <video> element?

#22

Hey there!
I tried testing the alternative text for the tag by taking a letter out of the link. Instead of replacing the video window with the text “Video not supported”, the video window is dark grey and gives no error code.

#23

The instructions for the exercise say to wrap the video url in: . The trouble is, the “>” in the opening tag seems to be an error? The video won’t load with the tag typed as instructed:

Only by leaving OFF that second > does it load the video. So the correct instruction would have been for the opening tag to be written: <video (correct?)

If so, it would appear that there is an error in the directions.