Friday, April 6, 2012

How to post a youtube video on blogger or blogpost?

Adding a video to your blogpost is simple. These are steps you can use to add a video to your blogpost.

1. Goto youtube.com
2. Search for your video e.g 'funny animals'
3. Choose a video from the results.
4. Click on the video.
5. On the screen showing the video, just below the video there will be a button 'Share'. Click on it.
6. Now you will see two options, to 'Embed' or 'Email'. Choose the option to 'Embed'
7. After clicking on embed you will see a some html code in a box similar to
   <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fDBkhw1MqFU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
    Copy this code.
8. Now goto blogger and create a new post.
9. Give the title for your post.
10. In the section where you specify the text for the post there will be two options to 'Compose' or 'HTML'. In compose you can enter text directly and edit it using the editor. In 'HTML' option you can directly edit html.
11. After choosing the HTML option, 'Paste' the code that you copied from youtube into the textbox you see in the 'HTML' section, similar to -
     <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
        <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fDBkhw1MqFU"   
           frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>   
     </div>


Now click on 'Compose' again and you should be able to see your video like this.



You can now publish your video to your blog post.


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