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HTML HTML Objects Embedded Elements

Jeff Mathis
Jeff Mathis
3,935 Points

Embed Videos from youtube.

followed the intructions on the video in my track about embed videos from youtube. I copy and pasted from youtube and it shows up blank in my page. It shows the space where it would be but its still blank? I used old embed code as instructed and it is not working. anybody else have this issue?

3 Answers

Ryan Boone
Ryan Boone
26,518 Points

Make sure you're including the http:// at the beginning of the video link.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

I'm going to take a guess here you are trying to embed a YouTube video in an html file on your computer that doesn't a web server.

If that's the case ...

Protocol-less URLs don't work without a web server, so in that case just add http: in front of the URL.


> The main caveat to keep in mind when using the protocol-less reference is that it will fail on pages loaded via file:/// (i.e. HTML pages you load directly from disk to your browser). So, do be sure to include the http: protocol in the URL if you happen to be developing without a web server at all, but don’t worry about omitting it otherwise.

source: http://encosia.com/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-google-host-jquery-for-you/

Jeff Mathis
Jeff Mathis
3,935 Points

thanks man it worked !