← Back to release summary

HTMLVideoElement.playsInline

Category
Multimedia
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 75)
Intent stage
Evaluate readiness to ship

Summary

This is a hint a website may provide to a user agent to display a video content within the element's playback area.

Motivation

It allows embedders to provide a media experience where a playing a video automatically enters fullscreen. This attribute will offer an opt-out for websites. Safari on iPhone already supports this.

Standards & signals

Docs: Discussion to add it to spec: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1237

Explainers: N/A

View on chromestatus.com