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Can someone please tell me how to embed a youtube video?


JLHPROF

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All my time on this board and I've never been able to get a Youtube video to directly embed in a post.  I click the code button, choose HTML, and enter the embed code from Youtube and nothing happens.
What am I missing?

Thanks!

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15 minutes ago, JLHPROF said:

All my time on this board and I've never been able to get a Youtube video to directly embed in a post.  I click the code button, choose HTML, and enter the embed code from Youtube and nothing happens.
What am I missing?

Thanks!

I simply grab the youtube url and paste it into the post.  The software does the rest.

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13 minutes ago, Zakuska said:

I simply grab the youtube url and paste it into the post.  The software does the rest.

Thanks.  That didn't used to work, but I'll try again.

...success.
 

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It works, but the embedded video nearly fills the entire screen.  Instead of displaying at 480x270 as specified in the iframe HTML, it displays at 1547x909 on my screen.

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It would be easy if we could actually embed the the video instead of just copying and pasting the URL. You just change the width and height characteristics in the embed code from Youtube.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sGLoI8CGV7c" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

But the embed code doesn't work on this board.

 

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Viewing the page source, it shows this HTML code for the video you posted on this page:

<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/esxy6ZwpZuQ?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe

But the iframe dimensions are ignored for the video and the video is resized to fill the screen.  It's not a showstopper, but it does make scrolling on a page tedious when there are multiple videos embedded on a page.

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