How To Play Videos In Html

Adding video provides your visitors with a much richer experience. Fortunately, adding video content to your HTML pages is much easier than ever.

However, each method of adding video has its own advantages and disadvantages. While there are many different methods that can be used to add videos to your pages, leveraging YouTube seems to be the easiest to implement.

Please note that some of the methods listed below are not supported in HTML 4.01. You either have to have a browser that supports HTML 5 or install require that Flash is installed on the user’s computer.

Here are the most common ways to add a video to your web pages.

iFrame Element

I find this to be the easiest way to add a video to your page. YouTube already provides you with a link to an embedded player, just click on the Share button to access the code.

All you need to do is add an iframe to your page and assign the correct URL to the src attribute of the iframe. This method requires a browser that supports HTML 5 or Flash. Here is an example.