Customize The Look Of Your <camera>

CameraTag was built from the ground up to easily allow you to style and brand its interface. Below you will learn how to customize how your Camera appears on your site.

How do I apply diffrent CSS stylings?
How do I change the HTML?
How can I change the language of the default interface?

How do I apply diffrent CSS stylings?

You can choose one of our prebuilt styles in the Camera Wizard or you can suuply your own css file. If you are hand-rolling your own <camera> you can supply the css url to the camera by adding a data-cssurl attribute to the tag.

The easiest way to start building this CSS file is to use our CSS template

How do I change the HTML?"

CameraTag has multiple "screens" each of which has an associated HTML interface that can be individually overwritten. The screens are named as follows:
  • start-screen

  • mobile-start-screen

  • camera-detection-screen

  • countdown-screen

  • recording-screen

  • playback-screen

  • upload-screen

  • accept-screen

  • paused-screen

  • wait-screen

  • completed-screen

  • error-screen

  • settings-screen

  • sms-screen

To overwrite a screen for any CameraTag create a <div> on the page with an id that matches the pattern [CAMERA_DOM_ID]-[SCREEN_NAME]. Here's an example of a how to replace the stock startup screen with a very simple "click to start recording" link.
<div id='MyRecorder1-start-screen'>
  <a class='cameratag_record'>click to start recording</a>
</div>
Take note of the class name "cameratag-record" on the "click to start recording" link. This is one of several special classes that will trigger an action in the CameraTag when clicked. These special action classes are:
  • cameratag_record
    starts recording

  • cameratag_countdown_status
    element's innerHTML gets replaced with pre-roll countdown

  • cameratag_stop_recording
    stops recording

  • cameratag_record_timer_prompt
    element's innerHTML gets replaced with recording timer

  • cameratag_horizontal_meter
    this element's width will be set as a percentage equal to the audio level sent by the audioLevel event

  • cameratag_vertical_meter
    this element's height will be set as a percentage equal to the audio level sent by the audioLevel event

  • cameratag_settings_btn
    open the camera's input settings dilaog (different for flash & WebRTC)

  • cameratag_sms_link
    Open the record via SMS interface

  • cameratag_send_sms
    Sends an SMS to the phone number enetered in the box

  • cameratag_play
    starts playback

  • cameratag_stop_playback
    stops playback

  • cameratag_publish
    publishes the recorded video

  • cameratag_error_message
    on error element's innerHTML gets replaced with error message

How can I change interface language?

You can change any of the interface strings in CameraTag using the CT_i18n array. Simply copy and paste the JS below into a <script> tag in your <head> and change whatever values you'd like.
// i18n
if (typeof(CT_i18n) == "undefined") {
  CT_i18n = []
}

CT_i18n[0] = "To record this video using your mobile phone please visit <<url>> in your mobile browser"
CT_i18n[1] = "Your mobile device does not support video uploading"
CT_i18n[2] = "Recording in this browser requires Flash player 11 or higher. Would you like to install it now?"
CT_i18n[3] = "Unable to embed recorder. Please make sure you have Flash Player 11 or higher installed"
CT_i18n[4] = "choose a method below to submit your video"
CT_i18n[5] = "record from camera"
CT_i18n[6] = "upload a file"
CT_i18n[7] = "record from phone"
CT_i18n[8] = "wave to the camera"
CT_i18n[9] = "recording in"
CT_i18n[10] = "uploading..."
CT_i18n[11] = "click to stop recording"
CT_i18n[12] = "click to skip review"
CT_i18n[13] = "Accept"
CT_i18n[14] = "Re-Record"
CT_i18n[15] = "Review Recording"
CT_i18n[16] = "please wait while we push pixels"
CT_i18n[17] = "published"
CT_i18n[18] = "Enter your <b>mobile phone number</b> below and we will text you a link for mobile recording"
CT_i18n[19] = "Send Mobile Link"
CT_i18n[20] = "cancel"
CT_i18n[21] = "Check your phone for mobile recording instructions"
CT_i18n[22] = "or point your mobile browser to"
CT_i18n[23] = "drop file to upload"
CT_i18n[24] = "sending your message"
CT_i18n[25] = "please enter your phone number!"
CT_i18n[26] = "that does not appear to be a valid phone number"
CT_i18n[27] = "Unable to send SMS."
CT_i18n[28] = "No Camera Detected"
CT_i18n[29] = "No Microphone Detected"
CT_i18n[30] = "Hardware Access Denied"
CT_i18n[31] = "Lost connection to server"
CT_i18n[32] = "Playback failed"
CT_i18n[33] = "Unable To Connect"
CT_i18n[34] = "Unable to publish your recording."
CT_i18n[35] = "Unable to submit form data."
CT_i18n[36] = "uploading your video"
CT_i18n[37] = "buffering video playback"
CT_i18n[38] = "publishing"
CT_i18n[39] = "connecting..."
CT_i18n[40] = "negotiating firewall..."
CT_i18n[41] = "Oh No! It looks like your browser paused the recorder"
CT_i18n[42] = "That does not appear to be a valid video file. Proceed anyway?"
CT_i18n[43] = "Record or Upload a Video"
CT_i18n[44] = "Tap to get started"
CT_i18n[45] = "Choose a method to submit your photo"
CT_i18n[46] = "Capture from Webcam"
CT_i18n[47] = "Upload a File"
CT_i18n[48] = "Choose which device(s) you would like to use"
CT_i18n[49] = "Tap here to snap or upload a photo"
CT_i18n[50] = "Image Adjustments / Filters"
CT_i18n[51] = "Pan & Zoom"
CT_i18n[52] = "Smoke"
CT_i18n[53] = "Murica"
CT_i18n[54] = "Brightness / Contrast"
CT_i18n[55] = "Night Vision"
CT_i18n[56] = "Posterize"
CT_i18n[57] = "Zinc"
CT_i18n[58] = "Berry"
CT_i18n[59] = "Spy Cam"
CT_i18n[60] = "Magazine"
CT_i18n[61] = "Cross Hatch"
CT_i18n[62] = "Flare"
CT_i18n[63] = "Hue / Saturation"
CT_i18n[64] = "Vibrance"
CT_i18n[65] = "Denoise"
CT_i18n[66] = "Unsharp Mask"
CT_i18n[67] = "Noise"
CT_i18n[68] = "Sepia"
CT_i18n[69] = "Vignette"
CT_i18n[70] = "Zoom Blur"
CT_i18n[71] = "Triangle Blur"
CT_i18n[72] = "Tilt Shift"
CT_i18n[73] = "Lens Blur"
CT_i18n[74] = "Swirl"
CT_i18n[75] = "Bulge / Pinch"
CT_i18n[76] = "Ink"
CT_i18n[77] = "Edge Work"
CT_i18n[78] = "Hexagonal Pixelate"
CT_i18n[79] = "Dot Screen"
CT_i18n[80] = "Color Halftone"
CT_i18n[82] = "Angle"
CT_i18n[83] = "Size"
CT_i18n[84] = "Scale"
CT_i18n[85] = "Radius"
CT_i18n[86] = "Strength"
CT_i18n[87] = "Brightness"
CT_i18n[88] = "Blur Radius"
CT_i18n[89] = "Gradient Radius"
CT_i18n[90] = "Hue"
CT_i18n[91] = "Saturation"
CT_i18n[92] = "Motion"
CT_i18n[93] = "Number of Colors"
CT_i18n[94] = "Gamma"
CT_i18n[95] = "Color"
CT_i18n[96] = "Luminance"
CT_i18n[97] = "Contrast"
CT_i18n[98] = "Stopping"
CT_i18n[99] = "Unable to activate camera or microphone"
CT_i18n[100] = "Waiting for hardware"
CT_i18n[101] = "Resume Recording"
CT_i18n[102] = "Recording Paused"
CT_i18n[103] = "choose a method below to submit your audio"
CT_i18n[104] = "record from microphone"
CT_i18n[105] = "Which microphone would you would like to use"
CT_i18n[106] = "this video is longer than the maximum allowed length of ## seconds. Please try again."
CT_i18n[107] = "That does not appear to be a valid audio file. Proceed anyway?"
CT_i18n[108] = 'We were unable to parse the file you selected. Please try again.'
CT_i18n[109] = 'This browser does not support hardware access from insecure origins. Please use https://'
CT_i18n[110] = 'Your video is still uploading to ther server. Please try again a few seconds.'
CT_i18n[111] = 'An error has occured.'
CT_i18n[112] = "please make sure your room tag has an id attribute"
CT_i18n[113] = "please make sure your room tag has a data-app-id attribute"
CT_i18n[114] = "Camera or Mic are not found or not allowed in your device."
CT_i18n[115] = "Camera or Mic is being used by some other process that does not not allow these devices to be read."
CT_i18n[116] = "There is no device found that fits your video and audio constraints. You may change video and audio constraints."
CT_i18n[117] = "You are not allowed to access camera and mic."
CT_i18n[118] = "Browser cannot access camera and mic because of unsecure context. Please install SSL and access via https"
CT_i18n[119] = "WebSocket not supported in this browser"
CT_i18n[120] = "Please select your audio and video devices below"
CT_i18n[121] = "Please enter your chat credentials below:"
CT_i18n[122] = "Join Room"
CT_i18n[123] = "Room Name"
CT_i18n[124] = "User Name"
CT_i18n[125] = "The Flash recording stack is no longer supported"
CT_i18n[126] = "This browser does not support video recording. Please make sure you're loading this page securely (using https) and using a recent version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge."