Video Lightning

Turn any element into a lightbox or popover link for Youtube and Vimeo videos.

Repo name is for posterity, Video Lightning is standalone so jQuery is optional.

Table of Contents

• Why
• How
• Features
• Demos
• Docs
  • Getting Started
  • Passing in Options
  • Available Options
• Changes
• Alternate Builds
• Contributing

Why?

Lots of reasons. The main one, and the reason we built it, is for quick video explainers in the appropriate places. This little plugin bootstraps getting those helpful little videos in place.

How?

Simple. Add the js your project, initialize with target and options and enjoy your video lightbox enhanced element!

Features

• Simple access to all embed API options for both providers
• Lots of options to customize and beautify your lightboxes
• Intelligent popover auto positioning gravitates to page center
• Preview videos on hover, pin if you want them to stick around
• Lazy loading of videos prevents slow page load due to video embeds
• Rick Roll with ease (don't pass video id, add rick_roll option to prevent closing)

Demos

Check the GH Project Page for demos.

Docs

Getting Started

i. Add script where you desire (bottom of body is recommended)

<script src="javascripts/jquery-video-lightning.js"></script>

ii. Initialize it on the desired elements with any options you please (options can also be passed as data attributes)

Native initialization:

<script>
  videoLightning({
    elements: [
      {
        ".video-link": {
          id: "y-PKffm2uI4dk",
          autoplay: true,
          color: "white"
        }
      }
    ]
  });
</script>

jQuery flavored initialization:

<script>
  $(function() {
    $(".video-link").jqueryVideoLightning({
        id: "y-PKffm2uI4dk",
        autoplay: true,
        color: "white"
    });
  });
</script>

Alternatively, for a simple setup you could initialize on a class, set your options globally, and add video id to each el.

<div class="video-link" data-video-id="y-PKffm2uI4dk"></div>
<div class="video-link" data-video-id="y-z-D1PJ1cMXs></div>
<script>
  videoLightning({settings: {autoplay: true, color: "white"}, element: ".video-link"});
</script>

Passing in Options

Options can be passed in any of the following three ways.

Options as attributes off the element object (local to element):

videoLightning({
  elements: [
    {
      ".video-link": {
        id: "y-PKffm2uI4dk",
        width: 1280,
        height: 720
      }
    }
  ]
});

Options as attributes of the setting object (global, overwritten by local, doesn't apply to jQuery style init):

videoLightning({
  settings: {
    autoplay: true,
    width: 1280,
    height: 720
  },
  elements: [
    {
      ".video-link": {
        id: "y-PKffm2uI4dk"
      }
    }
  ]
});

Options as data attributes:

(Note that data attributes are all prefixed with data-video and camel cased options should be dashed instead in data attributes. So startTime becomes data-video-start-time)

IE<10 does not support dataset and as such the only backported settings that work with older IE versions are id, width, and height

<div class="video-link" data-video-id="y-PKffm2uI4dk" data-video-width="1280" data-video-height="720"></div>

Available Options

Video Lightning exposes all available basic API options for both Youtube and Vimeo. There are also a number of effect, style, and behavior options that are available. The following is the current list of available options.

GENERAL OPTIONS

• id (String - default="y-dQw4w9WgXcQ")
  Vendor prefixed video id [if Youtube then prefix with y-xxxxx, if Vimeo then v-xxxxx]

• width (Integer - default=640)
  Video width in px

• height (Integer - default=390)
  Video height in px

• autoplay (Boolean - default=true)
  Start playback immediately once the element is clicked (true,false)

• autoclose (Boolean - default=true)
  Autoclose lightbox / popover once video is complete (true,false)

• popover (Boolean - default=false)
  Open in popover instead of lightbox (true,false)

• peek (Boolean - default=false)
  Preview video on hover, user can click ^ to pin (true,false)

• bdColor (String [hex] - default="#ddd")
  Color of page overlay

• bdOpacity (Decimal [0 to 1] - default=0.6)
  Opacity of page overlay

• frameColor (String [hex] - default="#000")
  Color of iframe video will fill

• frameBorder (String [border/outline css shorthand] - default="none")
  Video iframe border ex: '3px solid #555', note: will change aspect ratio of video

• glow (Integer - default=20)
  Glow around video frame

• glowColor (String [hex] - default="#000")
  Glow color around video frame

• xBgColor (String [hex] - default="#000")
  Close icon background color

• xColor (String [hex] - default="#fff")
  Close icon × color

• xBorder (String [border/outline css shorthand] - default="none")
  Close icon box border ex: '3px solid #555'

• fadeIn (Integer [ms] - default=300)
  Time in ms of lightbox fade in

• fadeOut (Integer [ms] - default=0, 1000)
  Time in ms of lightbox fade out [default is 0 if closed manually, 1000 if autoclosed]

• zIndex (Integer - default=2100)
  Z-index of page overlay

• rickRoll (Boolean - default=false)
  Make video un-closable (true,false)

• cover (Boolean - default=false)
  Display cover image (true,false)

• unload (Boolean - default=true)
  Unload video iframe X seconds after it is closed

• unloadAfter (Integer [s] - default=45)
  Time in seconds to wait after closing before unloading

• fluidity (Integer - default=30)
  Number of steps popover should move in on resize events. Lower is smoother, higher is faster

• throttle (Integer [ms] - default=null)
  Rate limit resize events. Reduces redraws on resizing, lowers accuracy / smoothness of repositioning

VENDOR OPTIONS

Some of Youtube's options are not listed below, but everything on their params page (as of 3/15/15) is available. Youtube Params Reference

• autohide (default=2)
  Y: auto hide controls after video load (0,1,2)

• controls (default=1)
  Y: display controls (0,1,2)

• ivLoadPolicy (default=1)
  Y: display annotations (1,3)

• ccLoadPolicy (default=null)
  Y: display closed captions by default (null,1)

• loop (default=0)
  Y&V: loop video playback (0,1)

• modestbranding (default=0)
  Y: hide large Youtube logo (0,1)

• playlist (default="")
  Y: comma-separated list of video IDs to play (ex. "WkgWvaFrJv8,VZPxHUpdAGw")

• related (default=0)
  Y: show related videos when playback is finished (0,1)

• showinfo (default=1)
  Y: display title, uploader (0,1) V: display title (0,1)

• startTime (default=0)
  Y: playback start position in seconds (ex. "132" starts at 2mins, 12secs)

• endTime (default=0)
  Y: playback end position in seconds (ex. "132" ends at 2mins, 12secs)

• theme (default="dark")
  Y: player theme ("dark","light")

• color (default="")
  Y: player controls color ("red","white") V: player controls color (hex code default is "#00adef")

• byline (default=1)
  V: display byline (0,1)

• portrait (default=1)
  V: display user's portrait (0,1)

Changes

Patch [3.0.5]

• [BUGFIX] backport id, width, and height data-attribute specification to work with IE<10
• [BUGFIX] use CSS border property for borders instead of outline (note, will change aspect ratio if frameBorder enabled)

Patch [3.0.4]

• [FEATURE] added options for iframe background color frameColor, iframe border frameBorder, close button border xBorder

Patch [3.0.3]

• [BUG FIX] corrects bug preventing initializing on element by id rather than class
• [FEATURE] by request bare iframe option was added for embedding a webpage in a VL driven iframe
  • usage: set vendor + video id to 'f-{url}', for example 'f-http://doesdev.github.io/jquery-video-lightning/'

General Updates [3.0]

• complete re-write removing the dependency on jQuery while still supporting jQuery initialization
• using full iframe API's for Youtube and Vimeo for event handling and interaction
• adds option to autoclose on video end
• adds peek option to preview video on hover with ability to pin popover
• enhanced gravity function improves popover positioning performance and smoothness

New Options [3.0]

• peek
• autoclose
• unload
• unloadAfter
• fluidity
• throttle
• xBgColor
• xColor

Changed Defaults [3.0]

• bdColor: '#000' => '#ddd'
• bdOpacity: 1.0 => 0.6
• glow: 0 => 20
• glowColor: '#fff' => '#000'

Changed Parameters [3.0]

• width: (pixel string w/ px suffix) => (pixel integer)
• height: (pixel string w/ px suffix) => (pixel integer)
• autoplay: (1,0) => (true,false)
• popover: (1,0) => (true,false)
• rickRoll: (1,0) => (true,false)
• cover: (1,0) => (true,false)

Renamed Options [3.0]

• backdrop_color => bdColor
• backdrop_opacity => bdOpacity
• ease_in => fadeIn
• ease_out => fadeOut
• glow_color => glowColor
• start_time => startTime
• z_index => zIndex
• rick_roll => rickRoll
• iv_load_policy => ivLoadPolicy

Deprecated Options [3.0]

• popover_x
• popover_y

Alternate Builds

2.0.1 minified (latest jQuery only build) (8.514 kb)
2.0.1 Docs

1.1.0 minified (pre-popover, lightbox only) (4.646 kb)
1.1.0 Docs

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

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author: Andrew Carpenter, on behalf of the musocrat team