Component(player, optionsopt, readyopt)

Base class for all UI Components. Components are UI objects which represent both a javascript object and an element in the DOM. They can be children of other components, and can have children themselves.

Components can also use methods from EventTarget

new Component(player, optionsopt, readyopt)
component.js, line 27

Creates an instance of this class.

Parameters:
Name Type Attributes Description
player Player

The Player that this class should be attached to.
options Object <optional>

The key/value store of component options.

Properties
Name Type Attributes Description
children Array.<Object> <optional>

An array of children objects to intialize this component with. Children objects have a name property that will be used if more than one component of the same type needs to be added.
className string <optional>

A class or space separated list of classes to add the component
ready Component~ReadyCallback <optional>

Function that gets called when the Component is ready.

Methods

static getComponent(name) → {Component}
component.js, line 1720

Get a Component based on the name it was registered with.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
name string

The Name of the component to get.
Returns:
Component -

The Component that got registered under the given name.

static registerComponent(name, ComponentToRegister) → {Component}
component.js, line 1658

Register a Component with videojs given the name and the component.

NOTE: Techs should not be registered as a Component. Techs should be registered using Tech.registerTech or videojs:videojs.registerTech.

NOTE: This function can also be seen on videojs as videojs:videojs.registerComponent.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
name string

The name of the Component to register.
ComponentToRegister Component

The Component class to register.
Returns:
Component -

The Component that was registered.

$(selector, contextopt) → {Element|null}
component.js, line 771

Find a single DOM element matching a selector. This can be within the Components contentEl() or another custom context.

Parameters:
Name Type Attributes Default Description
selector string

A valid CSS selector, which will be passed to querySelector.
context Element | string <optional>
 this.contentEl()

A DOM element within which to query. Can also be a selector string in which case the first matching element will get used as context. If missing this.contentEl() gets used. If this.contentEl() returns nothing it falls back to document.
Returns:
Element | null -

the dom element that was found, or null

See:

$$(selector, contextopt) → {NodeList}
component.js, line 793

Finds all DOM element matching a selector. This can be within the Components contentEl() or another custom context.

Parameters:
Name Type Attributes Default Description
selector string

A valid CSS selector, which will be passed to querySelectorAll.
context Element | string <optional>
 this.contentEl()

A DOM element within which to query. Can also be a selector string in which case the first matching element will get used as context. If missing this.contentEl() gets used. If this.contentEl() returns nothing it falls back to document.
Returns:
NodeList -

a list of dom elements that were found

See:

addChild(child, optionsopt, indexopt) → {Component}
component.js, line 462

Add a child Component inside the current Component.

Parameters:
Name Type Attributes Default Description
child string | Component

The name or instance of a child to add.
options Object <optional>
 {}

The key/value store of options that will get passed to children of the child.
index number <optional>
 this.children_.length

The index to attempt to add a child into.
Returns:
Component -

The Component that gets added as a child. When using a string the Component will get created by this process.

addClass(classToAdd)
component.js, line 817

Add a CSS class name to the Components element.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
classToAdd string

CSS class name to add

blur()
component.js, line 1157

Remove the focus from this component

abstract buildCSSClass() → {string}
component.js, line 688

Builds the default DOM class name. Should be overriden by sub-components.

Returns:
string -

The DOM class name for this object.

cancelAnimationFrame(id) → {number}
component.js, line 1591

Cancels a queued callback passed to Component#requestAnimationFrame (rAF).

If you queue an rAF callback via Component#requestAnimationFrame, use this function instead of window.cancelAnimationFrame. If you don't, your dispose listener will not get cleaned up until Component#dispose!

Parameters:
Name Type Description
id number

The rAF ID to clear. The return value of Component#requestAnimationFrame.
Returns:
number -

Returns the rAF ID that was cleared.

See:

cancelNamedAnimationFrame(name)
component.js, line 1566

Cancels a current named animation frame if it exists.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
name string

The name of the requestAnimationFrame to cancel.

children() → {Array}
component.js, line 379

Get an array of all child components

Returns:
Array -

The children

clearInterval(intervalId) → {number}
component.js, line 1470

Clears an interval that gets created via window.setInterval or Component#setInterval. If you set an inteval via Component#setInterval use this function instead of window.clearInterval. If you don't your dispose listener will not get cleaned up until Component#dispose!

Parameters:
Name Type Description
intervalId number

The id of the interval to clear. The return value of Component#setInterval or window.setInterval.
Returns:
number -

Returns the interval id that was cleared.

See:

clearTimeout(timeoutId) → {number}
component.js, line 1414

Clears a timeout that gets created via window.setTimeout or Component#setTimeout. If you set a timeout via Component#setTimeout use this function instead of window.clearTimout. If you don't your dispose listener will not get cleaned up until Component#dispose!

Parameters:
Name Type Description
timeoutId number

The id of the timeout to clear. The return value of Component#setTimeout or window.setTimeout.
Returns:
number -

Returns the timeout id that was cleared.

See:

contentEl() → {Element}
component.js, line 348

Return the Components DOM element. This is where children get inserted. This will usually be the the same as the element returned in Component#el.

Returns:
Element -

The content element for this Component.

createEl(tagNameopt, propertiesopt, attributesopt) → {Element}
component.js, line 260

Create the Components DOM element.

Parameters:
Name Type Attributes Description
tagName string <optional>

Element's DOM node type. e.g. 'div'
properties Object <optional>

An object of properties that should be set.
attributes Object <optional>

An object of attributes that should be set.
Returns:
Element -

The element that gets created.

currentDimension(widthOrHeight) → {number}
component.js, line 1070

Get the computed width or the height of the component's element.

Uses window.getComputedStyle.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
widthOrHeight string

A string containing 'width' or 'height'. Whichever one you want to get.
Returns:
number -

The dimension that gets asked for or 0 if nothing was set for that dimension.

currentDimensions() → {Component~DimensionObject}
component.js, line 1116

Get an object that contains computed width and height values of the component's element.

Uses window.getComputedStyle.

Returns:
Component~DimensionObject -

The computed dimensions of the component's element.

currentHeight() → {number}
component.js, line 1143

Get the computed height of the component's element.

Uses window.getComputedStyle.

Returns:
number -

The computed height of the component's element.

currentWidth() → {number}
component.js, line 1131

Get the computed width of the component's element.

Uses window.getComputedStyle.

Returns:
number -

The computed width of the component's element.

dimension(widthOrHeight, numopt, skipListenersopt) → {number}
component.js, line 1007

Get or set width or height of the Component element. This is the shared code for the Component#width and Component#height.

Things to know:

  • If the width or height in an number this will return the number postfixed with 'px'.
  • If the width/height is a percent this will return the percent postfixed with '%'
  • Hidden elements have a width of 0 with window.getComputedStyle. This function defaults to the Components style.width and falls back to window.getComputedStyle. See this for more information
  • If you want the computed style of the component, use Component#currentWidth and {Component#currentHeight
Parameters:
Name Type Attributes Description
widthOrHeight string

8 'width' or 'height'
num number | string <optional>

8 New dimension
skipListeners boolean <optional>

Skip componentresize event trigger
Fires:
Returns:
number -

The dimension when getting or 0 if unset

dimensions(width, height)
component.js, line 973

Set both the width and height of the Component element at the same time.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
width number | string

Width to set the Components element to.
height number | string

Height to set the Components element to.

dispose()
component.js, line 141

Dispose of the Component and all child components.

Fires:

el() → {Element}
component.js, line 241

Get the Components DOM element

Returns:
Element -

The DOM element for this Component.

enableTouchActivity()
component.js, line 1313

This function reports user activity whenever touch events happen. This can get turned off by any sub-components that wants touch events to act another way.

Report user touch activity when touch events occur. User activity gets used to determine when controls should show/hide. It is simple when it comes to mouse events, because any mouse event should show the controls. So we capture mouse events that bubble up to the player and report activity when that happens. With touch events it isn't as easy as touchstart and touchend toggle player controls. So touch events can't help us at the player level either.

User activity gets checked asynchronously. So what could happen is a tap event on the video turns the controls off. Then the touchend event bubbles up to the player. Which, if it reported user activity, would turn the controls right back on. We also don't want to completely block touch events from bubbling up. Furthermore a touchmove event and anything other than a tap, should not turn controls back on.

Listens to Events:
  • Component#event:touchstart
  • Component#event:touchmove
  • Component#event:touchend
  • Component#event:touchcancel

focus()
component.js, line 1150

Set the focus to this component

getAttribute(attribute) → {string|null}
component.js, line 897

Get the value of an attribute on the Components element.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
attribute string

Name of the attribute to get the value from.
Returns:
string | null -
  • The value of the attribute that was asked for. - Can be an empty string on some browsers if the attribute does not exist or has no value - Most browsers will return null if the attibute does not exist or has no value.
See:

getChild(name) → {Component|undefined}
component.js, line 405

Returns the child Component with the given name.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
name string

The name of the child Component to get.
Returns:
Component | undefined -

The child Component with the given name or undefined.

getChildById(id) → {Component|undefined}
component.js, line 392

Returns the child Component with the given id.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
id string

The id of the child Component to get.
Returns:
Component | undefined -

The child Component with the given id or undefined.

getDescendant(…names) → {Component|undefined}
component.js, line 427

Returns the descendant Component following the givent descendant names. For instance ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'] would try to get 'foo' on the current component, 'bar' on the 'foo' component and 'baz' on the 'bar' component and return undefined if any of those don't exist.

Parameters:
Name Type Attributes Description
names ...Array.<string> | string <repeatable>

The name of the child Component to get.
Returns:
Component | undefined -

The descendant Component following the given descendant names or undefined.

handleKeyDown(event)
component.js, line 1168

When this Component receives a keydown event which it does not process, it passes the event to the Player for handling.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
event EventTarget~Event

The keydown event that caused this function to be called.

handleKeyPress(event)
component.js, line 1189

Many components used to have a handleKeyPress method, which was poorly named because it listened to a keydown event. This method name now delegates to handleKeyDown. This means anyone calling handleKeyPress will not see their method calls stop working.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
event EventTarget~Event

The event that caused this function to be called.

abstract handleLanguagechange()
component.js, line 339

Handles language change for the player in components. Should be overriden by sub-components.

hasClass(classToCheck) → {boolean}
component.js, line 807

Check if a component's element has a CSS class name.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
classToCheck string

CSS class name to check.
Returns:
boolean -
  • True if the Component has the class. - False if the Component does not have the class`

height(numopt, skipListenersopt) → {number|string}
component.js, line 960

Get or set the height of the component based upon the CSS styles. See Component#dimension for more detailed information.

Parameters:
Name Type Attributes Description
num number | string <optional>

The height that you want to set postfixed with '%', 'px' or nothing.
skipListeners boolean <optional>

Skip the componentresize event trigger
Returns:
number | string -

The width when getting, zero if there is no width. Can be a string postpixed with '%' or 'px'.

hide()
component.js, line 858

Hide the Components element if it is currently showing by adding the 'vjs-hidden` class name to it.

id() → {string}
component.js, line 358

Get this Components ID

Returns:
string -

The id of this Component

initChildren()
component.js, line 585

Add and initialize default child Components based upon options.

isDisposed() → {boolean}
component.js, line 201

Determine whether or not this component has been disposed.

Returns:
boolean -

If the component has been disposed, will be true. Otherwise, false.

localize(string, tokensopt, defaultValueopt) → {string}
component.js, line 302

Localize a string given the string in english.

If tokens are provided, it'll try and run a simple token replacement on the provided string. The tokens it looks for look like {1} with the index being 1-indexed into the tokens array.

If a defaultValue is provided, it'll use that over string, if a value isn't found in provided language files. This is useful if you want to have a descriptive key for token replacement but have a succinct localized string and not require en.json to be included.

Currently, it is used for the progress bar timing.

{
  "progress bar timing: currentTime={1} duration={2}": "{1} of {2}"
}

It is then used like so:

this.localize('progress bar timing: currentTime={1} duration{2}',
              [this.player_.currentTime(), this.player_.duration()],
              '{1} of {2}');

Which outputs something like: 01:23 of 24:56.

Parameters:
Name Type Attributes Description
string string

The string to localize and the key to lookup in the language files.
tokens Array.<string> <optional>

If the current item has token replacements, provide the tokens here.
defaultValue string <optional>

Defaults to string. Can be a default value to use for token replacement if the lookup key is needed to be separate.
Returns:
string -

The localized string or if no localization exists the english string.

name() → {string}
component.js, line 369

Get the Components name. The name gets used to reference the Component and is set during registration.

Returns:
string -

The name of this Component.

options(obj) → {Object}
component.js, line 226

Deep merge of options objects with new options.

Note: When both obj and options contain properties whose values are objects. The two properties get merged using module:mergeOptions

Parameters:
Name Type Description
obj Object

The object that contains new options.
Returns:
Object -

A new object of this.options_ and obj merged together.

player() → {Player}
component.js, line 211

Return the Player that the Component has attached to.

Returns:
Player -

The player that this Component has attached to.

ready() → {Component}
component.js, line 702

Bind a listener to the component's ready state. Different from event listeners in that if the ready event has already happened it will trigger the function immediately.

Returns:
Component -

Returns itself; method can be chained.

removeAttribute(attribute)
component.js, line 924

Remove an attribute from the Components element.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
attribute string

Name of the attribute to remove.
See:

removeChild(component)
component.js, line 546

Remove a child Component from this Components list of children. Also removes the child Components element from this Components element.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
component Component

The child Component to remove.

removeClass(classToRemove)
component.js, line 827

Remove a CSS class name from the Components element.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
classToRemove string

CSS class name to remove

requestAnimationFrame(fn) → {number}
component.js, line 1504

Queues up a callback to be passed to requestAnimationFrame (rAF), but with a few extra bonuses:

  • Supports browsers that do not support rAF by falling back to Component#setTimeout.

  • The callback is turned into a Component~GenericCallback (i.e. bound to the component).

  • Automatic cancellation of the rAF callback is handled if the component is disposed before it is called.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
fn Component~GenericCallback

A function that will be bound to this component and executed just before the browser's next repaint.
Listens to Events:
Returns:
number -

Returns an rAF ID that gets used to identify the timeout. It can also be used in Component#cancelAnimationFrame to cancel the animation frame callback.

See:

requestNamedAnimationFrame(name, fn)
component.js, line 1540

Request an animation frame, but only one named animation frame will be queued. Another will never be added until the previous one finishes.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
name string

The name to give this requestAnimationFrame
fn Component~GenericCallback

A function that will be bound to this component and executed just before the browser's next repaint.

setAttribute(attribute, value)
component.js, line 912

Set the value of an attribute on the Component's element

Parameters:
Name Type Description
attribute string

Name of the attribute to set.
value string

Value to set the attribute to.
See:

setInterval(fn, interval) → {number}
component.js, line 1443

Creates a function that gets run every x milliseconds. This function is a wrapper around window.setInterval. There are a few reasons to use this one instead though.

  1. It gets cleared via Component#clearInterval when Component#dispose gets called.
  2. The function callback will be a Component~GenericCallback
Parameters:
Name Type Description
fn Component~GenericCallback

The function to run every x seconds.
interval number

Execute the specified function every x milliseconds.
Listens to Events:
Returns:
number -

Returns an id that can be used to identify the interval. It can also be be used in Component#clearInterval to clear the interval.

See:

setTimeout(fn, timeout) → {number}
component.js, line 1378

Creates a function that runs after an x millisecond timeout. This function is a wrapper around window.setTimeout. There are a few reasons to use this one instead though:

  1. It gets cleared via Component#clearTimeout when Component#dispose gets called.
  2. The function callback will gets turned into a Component~GenericCallback

Note: You can't use window.clearTimeout on the id returned by this function. This will cause its dispose listener not to get cleaned up! Please use Component#clearTimeout or Component#dispose instead.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
fn Component~GenericCallback

The function that will be run after timeout.
timeout number

Timeout in milliseconds to delay before executing the specified function.
Listens to Events:
Returns:
number -

Returns a timeout ID that gets used to identify the timeout. It can also get used in Component#clearTimeout to clear the timeout that was set.

See:

show()
component.js, line 850

Show the Components element if it is hidden by removing the 'vjs-hidden' class name from it.

toggleClass(classToToggle, predicateopt)
component.js, line 842

Add or remove a CSS class name from the component's element.

Parameters:
Name Type Attributes Description
classToToggle string

The class to add or remove based on (@link Component#hasClass}
predicate boolean | Dom~predicate <optional>

An Dom~predicate function or a boolean

triggerReady()
component.js, line 726

Trigger all the ready listeners for this Component.

Fires:

width(numopt, skipListenersopt) → {number|string}
component.js, line 942

Get or set the width of the component based upon the CSS styles. See Component#dimension for more detailed information.

Parameters:
Name Type Attributes Description
num number | string <optional>

The width that you want to set postfixed with '%', 'px' or nothing.
skipListeners boolean <optional>

Skip the componentresize event trigger
Returns:
number | string -

The width when getting, zero if there is no width. Can be a string postpixed with '%' or 'px'.

Type Definitions

DimensionObject
component.js, line 1094

An object that contains width and height values of the Components computed style. Uses window.getComputedStyle.

Properties:
Name Type Description
width number

The width of the Components computed style.
height number

The height of the Components computed style.

GenericCallback()
component.js, line 1345

A callback that has no parameters and is bound into Components context.

This:

ReadyCallback()
component.js, line 29

A callback that is called when a component is ready. Does not have any paramters and any callback value will be ignored.

This:

Events

componentresize
component.js, line 1025

Triggered when a component is resized.

Type:

dispose
component.js, line 152

Triggered when a Component is disposed.

Type:
Listeners of This Event:
Properties:
Name Type Attributes Default Description
bubbles boolean <optional>
 false

set to false so that the dispose event does not bubble up

ready
component.js, line 743

Triggered when a Component is ready.

Type:

tap
component.js, line 1275

Triggered when a Component is tapped.

Type: