Videos on youtube usually have a URI such as the following:
These URIs cannot be used to embed the video in an iframe such as the following:
In order to work as part of an embedded iframe, youtube video links must be in the following format:
Luckily, given any ‘normal’ youtube link, it is very easy to generate such an embed link. In JavaScript, this can be done with the following function:
function createYouTubeEmbedLink (link) {
return link.replace("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=", "http://www.youtube.com/embed/");
}
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A really old and slow, computer illiterate person like me cannot follow technical language readily taken for granted by those in the ‘know. I would love to have step by step instructions to link a YouTube video to one word in my comment to someone else’s blog.
When you posted:
“Luckily, given any ‘normal’ youtube link, it is very easy to generate such an embed link. In JavaScript, this can be done with the following function:
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function createYouTubeEmbedLink (link) {
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return link.replace(“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=”, “http://www.youtube.com/embed/”);
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}
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I haven’t a clue what you are talking about. I know how to copy the YouTube URL but how do I go to JavaScript (?) in order to complete the following steps of your instructions?
Hi pentugal,
you don’t need JavaScript to link to a video on YouTube! Just take the link as it is (from YouTube) and paste the link into the comment/post.
The post above is about a problem one might encounter when developing a JavaScript application – therefore the technical language!
Cheers,
Max
Thank you.