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HTML HTML Objects Embedded Elements

Why won't embedded video show up

copied embedded video code from youtube like in the lesson. but when i paste code in html body and try to run code video just quickly flashes on then off screen but won't stay. tried other videos and other browsers same issue. Thank you in advance for any help or advice.

Here is my code::

<!doctype html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>My Page</title> </head> <body> <object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/ZVR-NAbzbwY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/ZVR-NAbzbwY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> </body>

</html>

1 Answer

Hi Reginald,

What is the code you're using as it's hard to understand what's happening without any to work with.