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Question

For some reason I\'m unable to set the image size when using an tag inside an html5 video element. It is always defau

Answer 1

I believe this is the browser's way of hiding the since the element is supported in Chrome. If you open this in IE8 for example, the fallback content is displayed correctly.

The conditions you have used to test the fallback are incorrect. Removing the video source will simply result in the browser not finding the content (i.e. a 404). In this case, the correct fallback is to use the poster="" attribute on the

poster

The address of an image file for the UA to show while no video data is available

For example:

Full Demo (working for me in Chrome 26)