poster

Summary

Valid URL to an image ressource that will be displayed until the first frame of the video is available or will be displayed if no valid video ressource is available at all.

Property of dom/HTMLVideoElementdom/HTMLVideoElement

Syntax

var result = element.poster;
element.poster = value;

Return Value

Returns an object of type StringString

Notes

Remarks

The poster property requires a non-empty URL.

Syntax

Standards information

• HTML5 A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML, Section 4.8.6

See also

Related pages

• video element
• video object

Attributions

• Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]