how to include video in jekyll markdown blog

ruby video markdown highlight jekyll
jacksparrow007 picture jacksparrow007 · May 10, 2012 · Viewed 32k times · Source

I just started blogging using jekyll. I write my posts in markdown. Now, I want to include a youtube video in my post. How can I do this?

Also, I dont really like the pygments highlighting provided by jekyll by default. Is there anyway I can change this to some other style? If yes, can you point me to some nice styles/plugins?

Answer

huon picture huon · May 10, 2012

You should be able to put the HTML for embedding directly into your markdown. Under the video, there is a "Share" button, click on this, and then the "Embed" button, which should give you something that looks a little like:

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Just copy and paste that into your post, the Markdown preprocessor won't touch it.

For Pygments, there is a whole pile of CSS stylesheets for various colour themes in this repository, you could experiment with them. (Note that you will have to replace .codehilite with .highlight for these to work with Jekyll.)

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