Embedding youtube video in markdown?

ruby-on-rails youtube gem markdown embedding
trnc picture trnc · Apr 22, 2011 · Viewed 10.9k times · Source

i use the ruby gem formatize to parse my markdown-formated text. now i want to embed a youtube-video into the markdown text, but whenever i add the iframe snippet, the gem (or markdown?) just removes it from the output. any advise?

thanks!

Answer

Michael De Silva picture Michael De Silva · Apr 25, 2011

You'll have to get formatize to ignore <iframe> tags. See this link.

You can have markdown + HTML together so it sounds like it's an issue with the gem. Notice how the markdown syntax recommends that the older YouTube markup is embedded via direct HTML. You might be able to get away using the older <object> tag approach; I think it's still supported.

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