My Beloved PHP » Tutorial http://www.mybelovedphp.com The Art of Quick & Dirty Programming Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:08:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Embedding YouTube Movies in XHTML http://www.mybelovedphp.com/2006/10/27/embedding-youtube-movies-in-xhtml/ http://www.mybelovedphp.com/2006/10/27/embedding-youtube-movies-in-xhtml/#comments Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:42:04 +0000 programmer http://www.mybelovedphp.com/archives/6 YouTube If you try to embed a YouTube-video in a XHTML 1.0 compliant website, you will get validations errors. This is caused by YouTube’s use of the <embed> tag, which has been deprecated in XHTML 1.0.

The standard YouTube code is:

To solve the validations errors we have to get rid of the deprecated <embed> tag.

Therefore we add a data attribute to the <object> tag. The following code is the most simple and will work in Opera and Firefox:



To get it working in MS Explorer we need to add a <param> tag with name and value attribute:




To autoplay a movie simply add “&autoplay=1″ to the url:




Easy isn’t it? The code in xhtml is even shorter than the standard YouTube code. 

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