Display thumbnail image in iframe

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A.J picture A.J · Jan 19, 2017 · Viewed 14.2k times · Source

I am fairly new in this. I have the following iframe

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="<%=video1[1]%>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

What I am trying to do is have it play video1[1], but show the image that is in video1[2].

I tried doing is:

<iframe width="560" height="315" href="<%=video1[2]%>" src="<%=video1[1]%>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

but that doesn't work.

Is there a simple way of doing it?

Answer

Windwalker picture Windwalker · Jan 19, 2017

There's no attribute as 'href' in iFrame tag. See: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp

You could maybe build an iFrame which acts as a target for a link:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="<%=video1[1]%>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen name="iframe_video1"></iframe>

<a href="<%=video1[2]%>" target="iframe_video1"><img src="<...>"/></a>

BTW: Pay attention that in an iFrame's source attribute, there has to be a document (i.e. web page) referenced, no media/video directly. You could use YouTube links e.g. to be embedded.

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