LKBEN11728: How to embed a youtube video in your website?


Symptom

You need to put a link to a youtube video in your website but it should be viewable in the site itself.

Cause

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Solution

To just embed a link pointing to youtube is easy. This is the code you can use to embed a normal link:

<p>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tgbNymZ7vqY">A normal link</a>
</p>

This will be rendered like this:

A normal link

To embed the video into the website itself, you can use the following code snippet:

<iframe width="420" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tgbNymZ7vqY">
</iframe>

This will be rendered like this:

Hope this helps.

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

Latest update: 19-10-2024