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One may want one day to make a post with a hyperlink to a YouTube video, but let it appear ONLY as a hyperlink but NOT as a big video player thumbnail image. Can we do that? How?
Never mind the "trying". I see the tags around the link address. Front tag PLAIN in square brackets, end tag with the forward slash PLAIN in square brackets. That's nice. I just need to remember.fresh_42 said:Or PLAIN tags:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iSNsgj1OCLA
Ibix said:This seems to work (it's a Veritasium video):
It seems that if you use the URL tag with the url=whatever opening tag and make the tag contents different from the URL (mine is the URL with a space after it) then you get a URL only.
That looks strange because written is the same internet hyperlink address twice without a space between the two identical addresses. ... looking at that longer, I now also see the two PLAIN tags. I could take another try at this, but maybe later.Ibix said:[Url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iSNsgj1OCLA]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iSNsgj1OCLA [/url]
Note the space before the [/url].
That is excellent. Only problem now is to remember that.Ibix said:I wrote x . Note that there is no space inside the opening URL tag, but there is a space after the x between the opening tags. It appears that as long as the text between the tags is not identical to the target of the link, you get the text not the thumbnail. If you write x you get a thumbnail (at least if x is a URL pointing to a video).
You don't need the PLAIN tags. I put them into prevent the webpage interpreting the tags - I want to show you the command, not the effect.
To post a video link without a large thumbnail image, you can use the "embed" or "share" option provided by the video hosting platform. This will give you a smaller, more discreet thumbnail image or just a link to the video. You can also use a third-party link shortener to create a smaller link to the video.
Yes, you can customize the size of the thumbnail image when posting a video link. Some video hosting platforms allow you to choose from different sizes of thumbnail images, while others allow you to input a specific size. You can also use HTML code to resize the thumbnail image.
To prevent the video player from automatically playing, you can add "&autoplay=0" to the end of the video link. This will disable the autoplay feature and the video will only play when the user clicks on the play button.
Yes, you can hide the video player controls by adding "&controls=0" to the end of the video link. This will remove the play, pause, and volume buttons from the video player.
Yes, you can post a video link without any thumbnail image or player by using a text-only link. This option is usually available in the "share" or "embed" menu of the video hosting platform. You can also use HTML code to create a text-only link to the video.