In the old days, embedding a video into your website was a huge task that was not only difficult, but took up a lot of bandwidth. However with the invention of websites like Youtube video you can now embed the html code into your website while Youtube hosts the actual video. This way You get to use Youtube’s bandwidth for free and still enhance your website with videos that suit your websites theme.
Here’s how to embed a Youtube video into your website HTML:
- Go to the Youtube.com website and find the video that you would like to embed into your html.
- To the right of the video there is a section that says embed.
- Select the code in that box by making it blue.
- Then right click on the selected text.
- From the menu choose copy.
- Now you can paste this code into your website HTML section.
The actual code to embed into your websites html looks like this:
<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/3wkN_xCp4HE&hl=en&fs=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/3wkN_xCp4HE&hl=en&fs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>
The code to the Youtube video is embedded into my html but the actual video is hosted on Youtube.
How to embed Youtube video code into a WordPress or Blogger website?
- When your are writing a post in WordPress or Blogger you can simply press on the HTML tab.
- Then click in the section where you want to paste the code.
- Right click and choose paste from the menu.
- To view your Youtube video you can now press on the visual or preview tab.
Notes:
- If you are pasting this into your html of a website you can paste this code anywhere between the <body> and </body> tag.
- You can also upload your own Youtube video to Youtube and then paste the code into your website. See How to upload a movie or video clip from your computer to the Youtube website
- In a forum post if embedding Youtube video’s is enabled then you can sometimes put the url of the video in between [youtube] tags [/yoututbe].
Thanks for nice and innovative information