CSS Styling of a video player with control buttons - css

Question

Continuing my last question on this thread (Play button centred with different image/video sizes), I will open this one regarding to #Marc Audet request.
Basically I had this code:
.playBT{
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
position: absolute;
z-index: 999;
top: 25%;
left: 25%;
margin-left: -25px;
margin-top: -25px;
}
However I can't use the example given by Marc on the last thread, because the play button doesn't work as expected when the video size changes...
Here is the code

Answer 1

You need to tweak your HTML a bit, here is one way of doing it:
<div id="video-panel">
<div id="video-container" class="video-js-box">
<div id="play" class="playBT"><img class="imgBT" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RnPjQOr3PSw/Teflrf1dTaI/AAAAAAAAAbc/zQbRMLQmUAY/s1600/player_play.png" /></div>
<video id="video1">
<source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.mp4"/>
</video>
</div>
<div id="video-controls">
<div id="footerplay"><img src="http://www.cssaddons.com/uploads/goruntulenme/jQueryPausePlay/images/play.png" /></div>
<div id="footerpause"><img src="http://www.cssaddons.com/uploads/goruntulenme/jQueryPausePlay/images/pause.png" /></div>
<div id="progressbar">
<div id="chart"></div>
<div id="seeker"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
and the CSS is as follows:
#video-panel {
border: 4px solid blue;
padding: 4px 50px;
}
.video-js-box {
width: auto;
height: auto;
outline: 1px dotted blue;
position: relative;
display: block;
}
video {
outline: 1px dotted blue;
margin: 0 auto;
display: block;
}
#play {
position:absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
outline: 1px dotted red;
}
.imgBT{
width:50px;
height:50px;
vertical-align: bottom;
margin-left: -25px;
margin-top: -25px;
}
#video-controls {
outline: 1px solid red;
overflow: auto;
}
#footerplay {
float: left;
margin-left: 27px;
}
#footerpause {
float: left;
margin-left: 27px;
}
#progressbar {
float: left;
outline: 1px dotted black;
display: inline-block;
width: 200px;
height: 27px;
margin-left: 27px;
}
#footerplay img, #footerpause img{
height:27px;
}
Fiddle Reference: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/EnDHw/
Explanation & Details
User a wrapper div to keep everything tidy, video-panel, and use a separate div for the video video-container and for the controls video-controls.
The play button and the <video> element are positioned with respect to the video-container and note the negative margin trick to position the arrow button image.
The control elements can be positioned in their own div video-controls. I simply floated them to the left with a 27px left margin.
This should help you get started. The outlines and borders are for illustration only and are optional.
Good luck!