Hi all,
How do you link to a youtube video so that an image of the video accompanies the link for playing, and not just a url link.

Thanks for a quick answer.  I'm sure it must be simple.

John Bloy

I see quite a few of these playable image youtube videos diplayed throughout the forum, and many more with just the URL.   What's the trick?

I've searched for help, but none of the solutions (so far) from the web seem to work.  

You can embed with the link youtube gives you, if you look at your video then click on the hare button then embed button you will get the address, you can then just paste that into the post, at least thats how I think its done, will soon find out as I am just away to try
Hood
<a href="http://youtu.be/9mw811reb58" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://youtu.be/9mw811reb58</a>

Well thats not working obviously

trying again
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9mw811reb58&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/embed/9mw811reb58&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot;</a>

I give up

Best is I have done it before but was a long time ago

I know things keep changin',   but I'll try some more things.   I have some test posts in the VIDEOS section here, but I'm not having any luck either.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6s5oP2ihMuQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<a href="http://&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=http://www.youtube.com/embed/6s5oP2ihMuQ frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=http://www.youtube.com/embed/6s5oP2ihMuQ frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</a>

Ok have managed it
(<a href="http://then your url here" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://then your url here</a>)
without the quotations

You have to put the size in that your video is for it to show correctly, mine is 420,315 yours is 520,315

You did it... but I just got a empty white box again.  What did you do differently?

first I just posted the embed code. which you see above,
 The white box I got by selecting "insert flash" button and then placing the embed code into it.

iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6s5oP2ihMuQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe