HTML YouTube Videos

The easiest way to play videos in HTML, is to use YouTube.



YouTube Video Id

YouTube will display an id (like tgbNymZ7vqY), when you save (or play) a video.

You can use this id, and refer to your video in the HTML code.

Playing a YouTube Video in HTML

To play your video on a web page, do the following:

  • Upload the video to YouTube
  • Take a note of the video id
  • Define an <iframe> element in your web page
  • Let the src attribute point to the video URL
  • Use the width and height attributes to specify the dimension of the player
  • Add any other parameters to the URL (see below)
  • Example
    <iframe width="420" height="315"
    src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tgbNymZ7vqY"
    >

    </iframe>

    YouTube Playlist

    A comma separated list of videos to play (in addition to the original URL).