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Embedding YouTube Videos

To place a YouTube video in the main region of a page or a story instead of a right-column "YouTube Widget" follow these simple steps.

Use the share link in YouTube to get your video id

Step 1: Get the YouTube Video Id

Browse to the video in YouTube
Click on "Share"
In the provided link, highlight and copy the short string of letters and symbols that follow "http://www.youtu.be/"

Step 2: Choose a video player size - "small," "medium" or "large"

small: same size as the YouTube Widget
medium: just fits in the page content area when the right column is displayed
large: just fits in the page content area when the right column is not displayed

Step 3: Edit the page where you want to add the video

Within the page content there are 4 video placement options.

Left-aligned, text does not wrap around the video- Type the following directly in the Cascade content editor, substituting "size" with your choice from step 2 and "video-id" with the string of characters from step 1:

Centered, text does not wrap around the video- Type the following directly in the Cascade content editor, substituting "size" with your choice from step 2 and "video-id" with the string of characters from step 1:

Left-aligned, text wraps around the video- Type the following directly in the Cascade content editor, substituting "size" with your choice from step 2 and "video-id" with the string of characters from step 1:

Right-aligned, text wraps around the video- Type the following directly in the Cascade content editor, substituting "size" with your choice from step 2 and "video-id" with the string of characters from step 1:

The vertical bar you see in front of video-id is often called a "pipe" and is located above the enter key on most keyboards. On some keyboards it looks like 2 vertical dashes.