HTML Playing YouTube Videos

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

Struggling with Video Formats?

Converting videos to different formats can be difficult and time-consuming.

An easier solution is to let YouTube play the videos in your web page.

YouTube Video Id

YouTube will display an id (like Q3tChOefdm0), 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/Q3tChOefdm0">
</iframe>

YouTube Autoplay + Mute

You can let your video start playing automatically when a user visits the page, by adding autoplay=1 to the YouTube URL. However, automatically starting a video is annoying for your visitors!

Note: Chromium browsers do not allow autoplay in most cases. However, muted autoplay is always allowed.

Add mute=1 after autoplay=1 to let your video start playing automatically (but muted).

YouTube - Autoplay + Muted

<iframe width="420" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q3tChOefdm0?autoplay=1&mute=1">
</iframe>

YouTube Playlist

A comma separated list of videos to play (in addition to the original URL). Add ?playlist="id" (id of the playlist to play) in the URL to play a playlist.

YouTube Loop

Add loop=1 to let your video loop forever.

Value 0 (default): The video will play only once.

Value 1: The video will loop (forever).

YouTube - Loop

<iframe width="420" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OC4XwsU9USE?playlist=PUUmoOLK0PHcCos9gou8tuFw&loop=1">
</iframe>

YouTube Controls

Add controls=0 to not display controls in the video player.

Value 0: Player controls does not display.

Value 1 (default): Player controls display.

YouTube - Controls

<iframe width="420" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q3tChOefdm0?controls=0">
</iframe>