OK, what's the right way to embed a YouTube video

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Knightly_News

I tried to post a YouTube video to a thread and it kept being removed. I went to youtube, right clicked the video and clicked the option to get the embed code.  Then I pasted it into the thread window.  At first it didn't show anything, but when I reloaded the thread it showed the song, just like all the other ones there.  Then I go back and find this following in the thread.  Do they mean thread HTML format? Did I insert the video wrong?  It can't be song format, right? The thread is all links to youtube videos of music by various posters.

 

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goldendog

Dischlyzer had this issue. He figured it out.

Maybe ask him how.

TheGrobe

Also works if you post and then edit as opposed to previewing then editing.

TheGrobe

What OS and browser are you using?

Knightly_News

Well it worked in the sense that I was able to see the YouTube window, just like the others in that thread.  If something was broken, I'd like to know what it was.  Was it technical/HTML in nature, or an objection to the content itself?

The embed code is wrapped in an iframe HTML tag.  Does that break something?

Knightly_News
TheGrobe wrote:

What OS and browser are you using?

Well, I have and use both Chrome and Safari, but I think I posted it with Safari because I've disabled Java in Chrome.

TheGrobe

Safari on a Mac or using iOS? I've never been able to make it work on a mobile device.

trysts

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Please do not post dinosaur pictures - Mod.

goldendog

breaking the page format=extending beyond the margins of the posts we see here.

TheGrobe

It's because dinosaurs don't exist trysts. Don't let the conspiracists persuade you otherwise.

TheGrobe

Or maybe the brachiosaurus you posted was too wide for the page. Perhaps a nice tall and narrow Tyrannosaur or Duckbill.

trysts

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Dinosaurs are not a topic for discussion - Mod.

TheGrobe

It's a horrible double standard, I know.

trysts

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Please avoid pictures of split-pea soup -Mod.

Conquistador

You know its a good thread when you can't post because you keep laughing.

AnnaZC

split pea soup?? there was soup?

trysts

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Last warning! - Bok choy is off topic - Mod.

trysts

Those were all mine, in case somebody gets the wrong impression. I'm a little tipsyLaughing

AndyClifton

Dammit trysts, stop impersonating us! - Mod.

trysts

Laughing