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HTML HTML Video and Audio (Retired) Media Basics The Video Element

Posted by Jose Reyna
Jose Reyna
13,532 Points

Adding our own video

Hello,

I know this is a sample project but I wanted to add my own video from Youtube and when I do the video is much smaller and it does not play. Any suggestions?

1 Answer

Matthew Greenberg
Matthew Greenberg
8,173 Points

Youtube uses adobe flash to play movies because it supports more formats on more devices. The html video lesson uses the video attribute which is html5 element. To embed a youtube video you use the iframe attribute. Like this.

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kfVsfOSbJY0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

You can read more about the iframe attribute at the mozilla developer site.

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