How do I make a utube video full-screen in iweb?

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How do I make a utube video full-screen in iweb?

Hello,

Is there a way to make a utube video that is on my iweb-built website, full screen?

Everything about the videos I have imported from utube works fine, except when I click on the full-screen icon...nothing happens.

View the videos (2) here: http://www.lakesweddingmusic.com/Welcome.html

What inspired this question was coming across a site where there is an imported utube video that does go to full-screen, when asked!

The website is here: http://talentgb.com/users/peter-brown-wedding-party-pianist and it's a site which features exactly the same video as one of the ones on my own site - it's a promotion ste for musicians. (You have to scroll down the page to just over half way down to view the video).

Maybe I'm missing some important HTML that will allow full-screen?

Any help would be much appreciated.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Firefox 22

Posted on Oct 7, 2013 9:13 AM

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Answer 1

Roddy

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Oct 9, 2013 8:08 AM in response to PeterUK

Note that I am adding the missing "http:" at the begining of the URL.

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Answer 2

Old Toad

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Oct 7, 2013 10:15 AM in response to PeterUK

Does the code you're using in the HTML snippet include the code in red below?

<object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/_j13RXL9TGc?hl=en_US&version=3&rel=0"></para m><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/_j13RXL9TGc?hl=en_US&version=3&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>

OT

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Answer 3

PeterUK Author

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Oct 9, 2013 3:24 AM in response to Old Toad

Hi OT,

Thanks for your reply.

My HTML ebedded code is:

As you can see, it includes 'allowfullscreen', but not ' ="true" '. I thought that maybe the exclusion of the phrase ' ="true" might make a difference, until I discovered the embedded code is the same in both videos:

http://talentgb.com/users/peter-brown-wedding-party-pianist contains exactly the same code as the video at:

http://www.lakesweddingmusic.com/Welcome.html Yet talentGB allows full screen, but Lakesweddingmusic (my own site, built using iweb) does not.

Could this be something to do with Mountain Lion not 'liking' certain aspects of iweb?

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Answer 4

Ethmoid

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Oct 9, 2013 3:42 AM in response to PeterUK

You are posting html code into an html snippet, so html code has nothing whatsoever to do with iWeb itself. Whether html code displays correctly or not has nothing to do with either iWeb or Mountain Lion - it is purely html code that displays correctly if the code is right and it won't if the code is wrong - look to the code itself and not iWeb.

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Answer 5

Roddy

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Oct 9, 2013 5:15 AM in response to PeterUK

Use this code in the iWeb HTML Snippet and it should work...

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Answer 6

PeterUK Author

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Oct 9, 2013 7:05 AM in response to Roddy

Cheers Roddy,

I used this code and bingo! It worked. However, using the same code you provided, for the other video

('Somewhere'), I just cannot get it to work. I used exactly the same code you provided, except for the unique bit of the code - the 'name'. For Piano Man it's '/aCu2n1maY?

For 'Somewhere' it's 'Ey-KRJioJik'. I noticed in the code you posted for Piano Man, you added a '?' after the unique bit of the code. So for 'Somewhere'I did the same, but I cannot get it to show - even if I delete the '?'.

I've even tried entering the original utube code (which worked fine before, apart from the full screen feature) and now that won't show the video at all.

So, my 1st video won't work now, but my 2nd (Piano Man) works fine - and in full screen.

I've had a look at my Welcome page's .html file in Open Office, but am very hesitant about adding/subtracting anything in case I make matters worse!

Any tips for getting the 1st video to work?

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Answer 7

PeterUK Author

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Oct 9, 2013 9:38 AM in response to Roddy

Roddy you're a genius (as you've proved to be to so many inferior souls on here).

Everything seems to be working fine now. How you did it - I don't know, but many many thanks.

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Answer 8

PeterUK Author

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Oct 9, 2013 7:28 AM in response to PeterUK

1st video is back, but only in small screen format - I used the old utube widget to retore it. The HTML widget just wouldn't work with 'Somewhere'.

Any help at all would be appreciated.

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