How to embed YouTube Videos on other sites

YouTube is an awesome video sharing website. If you can think it, there's probably a video for it. You can easily spend countless hours enjoying what the YouTube community has to share. You may want to share a fun video you've found with your friends. Most YouTube videos can be embedded on other sites.

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Computer
• Internet Browser
• Somewhere to share a video

1. Step 1

   Direct your web browser such as Internet Explorer or Firefox to http://www.youtube.com.

2. Step 2
   

   If you have a YouTube account, go ahead and log in. You can also use a Google Account login if you have one.

3. Step 3

   Navigate to a video you want to share.

4. Step 4
   

   On the right hand side of the video, is a URL and Embed option. We'll be using the Embed option. The text in this window is HTML code that we need in order to put the video on another site.

5. Step 5

   Put your cursor in the text area, and it will highlight all the text. Copy this text by right-clicking and selecting Copy, or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-C.
   You can also click the widget icon next to Embed, which will give you additional options to how the video will display after you have embedded it.

6. Step 6

   Navigate to the website that you'll be sharing this info. If it's your own site or blog, make sure you paste the copied text into a window that either recognizes HTML, or a HTML specific window.

7. Step 7

   Save your work, and navigate to your site to make sure the video is displayed.

8. Step 8

   Enjoy sharing the fun YouTube video with your friends!