YouTube Video takes up whole content width

[edhopper]

When I embed a YouTube video, no matter what dimensions I set, the published page shows it taking up the entire content width, all the way to the sidebar. I have tried various shortcodes from <iframe> to [embed] that various forums suggest.
It still expands to the full width w3hatever the code.

Here is what I currently have,
<p><iframe src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/gFD7KGBUtKI&#8221; width=”420″ height=”315″ frameborder=”0″></iframe></p>

I takes up more than double that width. How do i fix this?

Thanks

[scrambler]

What about just using the youtube shortcode as explains in the Add-Ons page which has a size option (percent) 🙂

[edhopper]

Thanks scrambler, that worked as far as the size of the video. But now the video won’t play. I just get an error message.
I suspect I did not put in the URL correctly, Here is the line I have now:

<p>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/gFD7KGBUtKI id=videoid sd=0 percent=40 center=0 rel=0 https=1 privacy=0]</p>

I have tried with and without “embed”.

[scrambler]

You need to read the help carefully.

you use either the url or the videoid in the id option. And you don’t need to put all the options you don’t need. so it should be

[youtube id=gFD7KGBUtKI percent=40]

[edhopper]

Thanks, I understand now.  That worked
I am a novice at codes, so the obvious often escapes me, I hesitate from eliminating things from the code 🙁

I warned you would have a lot of questions. 😀

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