css - Overlaying a DIV On Top Of HTML 5 Video

Question

I need to overlay a div ON TOP of a div containing an HTML 5 video. In the example below the overlaying div's id is "video_overlays". See example below:

<div id="video_box">
  <div id="video_overlays"></div>
  <div>
    <video id="player" src="http://video.webmfiles.org/big-buck-bunny_trailer.webm" type="video/webm" onclick="this.play();">Your browser does not support this streaming content.</video>
  </div>
</div>

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16823636/overlaying-a-div-on-top-of-html-5-video

Answer 1

There you go , i hope this helps

http://jsfiddle.net/kNMnr/

here is the CSS also

#video_box{
    float:left;
}
#video_overlays {
position:absolute;
float:left;
    width:640px;
    min-height:370px;
    background-color:#000;
    z-index:300000;
}