HTMLVideoElement: poster property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The poster property of the HTMLVideoElement interface is a string that reflects the URL for an image to be shown while no video data is available. If the property does not represent a valid URL, no poster frame will be shown.

It reflects the poster attribute of the <video> element.

Value

A string.

Examples

html
<video
  id="media"
  src="https://example.com/video.mp4"
  poster="https://example.com/poster.jpg"></video>
js
const el = document.getElementById("media");
console.log(el.poster); // Output: "https://example.com/poster.jpg"

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-video-poster

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
poster

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