[[!meta title="CSS Video Backgrounds"]]
[[!meta date="2018-04-16"]]

With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3, developers now have the ability to support background videos (mp4 support only - at the time of this article) with pure CSS.

Example:


	.video-background {
		background-image: url('path-to-video.mp4);
	}


## See it in action

Check out the very basic CodePen I created below to see it live (make sure you view it in latest Safari or else you won't see anything :P)

<a href="https://codepen.io/bradleytaunt/pen/JLgrag/">CSS Video Background (Safari Only)</a>

You can read up on all the new features implemented in 11.1 Safari here:

[New WebKit Features in Safari 11.1](https://webkit.org/blog/8216/new-webkit-features-in-safari-11-1/)