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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Answer
JavaScript
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<video id="foo" src="foo.mp4"></video>2
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var vid = document.getElementById("foo");4
vid.videoHeight; // returns the intrinsic height of the video5
vid.videoWidth; // returns the intrinsic width of the video6
Spec: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/embedded-content.html#the-video-element