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Responsive Images and Videos
This tutorial will guide you on how to make images and videos responsive, ensuring they look good on all devices. You'll learn techniques to make your multimedia content adapt to …
Section overview
5 resourcesIntroduces the inclusion of images, audio, and video in HTML.
1. Introduction
Brief explanation of the tutorial's goal
The goal of this tutorial is to help you understand how to make images and videos responsive on your websites, ensuring they look good and function well on all devices (desktops, tablets, and mobile phones).
What the user will learn
By the end of the tutorial, you will learn how to:
- Use CSS techniques to make images and videos responsive.
- Use HTML's <picture> and <source> elements for responsive images.
- Set video width and height properties.
Prerequisites (if any)
You need to have a basic understanding of HTML and CSS. Familiarity with web design principles would be a plus but is not required.
2. Step-by-Step Guide
Responsive design is a web design approach that makes your web content adapt to the different screen and window sizes of a variety of devices.
Images
To make an image responsive, we will use CSS. The key is to set the max-width of the image to 100%. This way the image will scale down if it has to, but never scale up to be larger than its original size.
img {
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
Videos
Videos can be made responsive in a similar way to images. By default, videos don't resize like images when the browser window is resized. We will use a container and then give it a relative position, with the video inside it an absolute position.
.video-container {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
height: 0;
padding-bottom: 56.25%;
}
.video-container video {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
The padding-bottom property for the .video-container is derived from the aspect ratio of the videos (16:9), which is about 56.25%.
3. Code Examples
Example 1: Responsive Image
Here is an example of a responsive image:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
img {
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Responsive Image</h2>
<img src="img_chania.jpg" alt="Flowers in Chania">
</body>
</html>
Example 2: Responsive Video
Here is an example of a responsive video:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.video-container {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
height: 0;
padding-bottom: 56.25%;
}
.video-container video {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="video-container">
<video controls>
<source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
</div>
</body>
</html>
4. Summary
In this tutorial, you have learned how to make images and videos responsive using CSS. You've seen how to use the max-width property for images and position, width, and height properties for videos to ensure they adapt to different screen sizes. For further learning, you could explore other aspects of responsive design, such as responsive typography or responsive grids.
5. Practice Exercises
- Create a webpage with an image and video, both of which should be responsive.
- Modify the aspect ratio of the video in the responsive video example to 4:3, adjust the
padding-bottomvalue accordingly.
Solutions
- You can use the code examples provided in the tutorial as a starting point. Ensure to replace the
srcattribute with your own image and video URLs. - For a 4:3 aspect ratio, the
padding-bottomshould be 75% (3/4 = 0.75 or 75%).
Remember, practice is key to mastering any concept. Try creating your own images and videos and make them responsive. Happy coding!
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