HTML help please

[91Chris]

Hello. I found this example on the internet and I would like to use it in my own project. it works as it should, but how would I set a default source? Ie, If I wanted "Charlie 1" to automatically load when I visit the page, how would I do that? At the moment nothing loads until I select one.

<!-- Note that the target needs to be set to the name of the frame --><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Q5im0Ssyyus" target="someFrame">Charlie 1</a></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QFCSXr6qnv4" target="someFrame">Charlie 2</a></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eaCCkfjPm0o" target="someFrame">Charlie 3</a></p><iframe name="someFrame" width="560" height="315"></iframe>

Any help is appreciated.

Total noob by the way. I'm just figuring stuff out as I go along.

 

Chris.

[trama09]

?autoplay=1

At the end of the first link perhaps?

 

Or do you mean:

 

<iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Q5im0Ssyyus?autoplay=1"frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe>

[91Chris]

Hello. If you put the HTML code into a file and load it in a web browser you can see that the "box" is empty, nothing has loaded, but when you click one of the "links" it loads up a video. What I want is to load one by default, so when I visit the page there is already one loaded.

 

I am not going to be using videos, I will be loading HTML files instead. So I would like my "Home" page to load by default. Then other pages will be loaded by pressing buttons/links in my navigation bar.

[Ciccioo]

Hello. If you put the HTML code into a file and load it in a web browser you can see that the "box" is empty, nothing has loaded, but when you click one of the "links" it loads up a video. What I want is to load one by default, so when I visit the page there is already one loaded.

 

I am not going to be using videos, I will be loading HTML files instead. So I would like my "Home" page to load by default. Then other pages will be loaded by pressing buttons/links in my navigation bar.

as suggested by the other gentleman, just slap the url of the video you want in the src attribute of the iframe

[91Chris]

as suggested by the other gentleman, just slap the url of the video you want in the src attribute of the iframe

 

Ok I will have a play around.

 

While I'm here though, do you know any way of telling the iframe to auto adjust it's size to fit the content? The content is local but can only be reached via the web as the hosting provider doesn't support ssl on a free account.

 

Thanks,

Chris.

[Ciccioo]

Ok I will have a play around.

 

While I'm here though, do you know any way of telling the iframe to auto adjust it's size to fit the content? The content is local but can only be reached via the web as the hosting provider doesn't support ssl on a free account.

 

Thanks,

Chris.

i don't think it's possible, because the content is supposed to resize itself to fit the window, and not vice versa

and the iframe should behave like a window

[91Chris]

i don't think it's possible, because the content is supposed to resize itself to fit the window, and not vice versa

and the iframe should behave like a window

 

It's definitely possible from what I've read, the problem is I cant find a way to do it with a file/page that's isn't local (or cant be obtained locally). There must be a way of loading the page "in the background" to "measure" it, then applying those values dynamicaly. No?

 

Cheers,

Chris.

[Ciccioo]

It's definitely possible from what I've read, the problem is I cant find a way to do it with a file/page that's isn't local (or cant be obtained locally). There must be a way of loading the page "in the background" to "measure" it, then applying those values dynamicaly. No?

 

Cheers,

Chris.

i can't see how that could be done, because web pages don't have a "size", they try to stretch and adapt to the browser, depending on rules described by the designer

so nope, i can't help you here sorry

 

and you can't access pages cross-domain because of a security limitation: basically, if that was allowed, all the lamers would screw around with your logins

i read somewhere that there is a workaround for that, but i don't know what it is and i don't know if it actually exists

browser extensions, on the other side, allow you to access any domain if you ask the use for permission when installing the extension, so maybe you can do something with that, but it's clearly a whole different thing

[trama09]

Even though I've spent a good bit of time web developing/ programming, I have never embedded a YouTube video in my projects.

My point is: 30 seconds to 1 minute of Google-ing and testing on W3Schools helped me give you your answer...

[91Chris]

i can't see how that could be done, because web pages don't have a "size", they try to stretch and adapt to the browser, depending on rules described by the designer

so nope, i can't help you here sorry

 

and you can't access pages cross-domain because of a security limitation: basically, if that was allowed, all the lamers would screw around with your logins

i read somewhere that there is a workaround for that, but i don't know what it is and i don't know if it actually exists

browser extensions, on the other side, allow you to access any domain if you ask the use for permission when installing the extension, so maybe you can do something with that, but it's clearly a whole different thing

 

This is one of the many places where I read about auto adjusting the size. I started learning about HTML and what not 2 days ago, so it makes little sense to me.

 

http://www.scottdizzle.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=846

 

 

Even though I've spent a good bit of time web developing/ programming, I have never embedded a YouTube video in my projects.

My point is: 30 seconds to 1 minute of Google-ing and testing on W3Schools helped me give you your answer...

 

I have achieved what I wanted a different way now. Thanks.

[trama09]

I have achieved what I wanted a different way now. Thanks.

You're welcome.