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HTML5 Video Dimensions

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I'm trying to get the dimensions of a video of which I'm overlaying onto a page with JavaScript, however it is returning the dimensions of the poster image instead of the actual video as it seems it's being calculated before the video is loaded.

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answered 14 Years ago alli · Accepted Answer

<video id=foo src=foo.mp4></video>



var vid = document.getElementById(foo);

vid.videoHeight; // returns the intrinsic height of the video

vid.videoWidth; // returns the intrinsic width of the video

Spec: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/embedded-content.html#the-video-element