HTML 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 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)

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.

Chrome added stricter autoplay policies in 2018. Chromium browsers do not allow autoplay in all cases. However, muted autoplay is always allowed.

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

YouTube Playlist

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

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 Controls

Add controls=0 to display controls in the video player.

Value 0: Player controls does not display.

Value 1 (default): Player controls display.