jquery.youtube-background

v1.0.7

Another 100 liner in a form of a jQuery plugin created to facilitate YouTube embeds as a cover background using YouTube Embed API.

I wrote this code several times over the years and never bothered to make it reusable. Now when I needed it again I could not even find where I wrote it last...

Goodbye careless days... I'm getting old...

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Features

• Fade in CSS animation
• Play/Pause button
• Mute/Unmute button
• No CSS required
• No longer jQuery dependant

Usage

Usage is pretty simple, add a data attribute data-youtube containing a full YouTube link or just the YouTube ID.

You can trigger all elements containing the noted attribute with $("[data-youtube]").youtube_background();, or specify your selector, on jQuery document ready event.

Note: From version 1.0.6 jQuery is no longer a dependency, but purely optional. To initialise youtube video backgrounds without jQuery use: new VideoBackgrounds('[data-youtube]');.

P.S. https://www.youtube.com/player_api is injected automatically, only once per script init. I've seen some implementations like Elementor WP plugin that inject it several times, for no reason. Anyway, you're welcome.

Quick Example

	<style>
		/* optional css fade in animation */
		iframe {
			transition: opacity 500ms ease-in-out;
			transition-delay: 250ms;
		}
	</style>

	<!-- target element -->
    <div data-youtube="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEpEeyqGlxA"></div>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        jQuery(document).ready(function() {
            jQuery('[data-youtube]').youtube_background();
        });
    </script>

Properties

Property	Default	Accepts	Description
play-button	false	boolean	Adds a toggle pause button
mute-button	false	boolean	Adds a toggle mute button
autoplay	true	boolean	Autoplay loaded video
muted	true	boolean	Load video muted
loop	true	boolean	Loop loaded video
mobile	false	boolean	Keep the youtube embed on mobile
load-background	true	boolean	Fetch background from youtube
offset	200	int	showinfo:0 id deprecated since September 25, 2018. - this setting makes the video a bit larger than it's viewport to hide the info elements
resolution	16:9	string	declare video resolution (work in progress)
pause	false	boolean	Adds a toggle pause button (deprecated)

Noted properties can be added as html attributes as:

• data-ytbg-play-button
• data-ytbg-mute-button
• data-ytbg-autoplay
• data-ytbg-mooted
• data-ytbg-loop
• data-ytbg-mobile
• data-ytbg-offset
• data-ytbg-resolution
• data-ytbg-load-background

Example - Properties as HTML attributes

    <div data-ytbg-play-button="true" data-youtube="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEpEeyqGlxA"></div>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        jQuery(document).ready(function() {
            jQuery('[data-youtube]').youtube_background();
        });
    </script>

Example - Properties as JSON

    <div data-youtube="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEpEeyqGlxA"></div>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        jQuery(document).ready(function() {
            jQuery('[data-youtube]').youtube_background({
				'play-button': true
			});
        });
    </script>

todo

• Autoplay property
• Mute property and button #4
• Add another wrapper so video can fade in when loaded
• Add play-pause, mute-unmute events
• Test the execution order
• Refactor the code to provide foundation for unified solution from multiple providers and sources called video-background
• https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes
• Pause and mute on inactivity option
• Play only when in viewport if IntersectionObserver available, also can be toggled as an option
• Perform final tests on BrowserStack and comment the code

THE END.