Add a button to play or pause the video. Then we have styled the video to a hundred percentage height and width so that it covers the entire background.
The following is the code snippet to set video as a site background in HTML5.
<video autoplay muted loop id = "myVideo"> <source src = "demo.mp4" type = "video/mp4"> Your browser does not support HTML5 video. </video>
The following is to pause the video −
function display() { if (video.paused) { video.play(); btn.innerHTML = "Pause the video!"; } else { video.pause(); btn.innerHTML = "Play"; } }