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Magento 2 Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Magento 2 Development Cookbook Over 60 recipes that will tailor and customize your experience with Magento 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785882197
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Upgrading from Magento 1 FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Products 3. Theming 4. Creating a Module 5. Databases and Modules 6. Magento Backend 7. Event Handlers and Cronjobs 8. Creating a Shipping Module 9. Creating a Product Slider Widget 10. Performance Optimization 11. Debugging and Unit Testing Index

Embedding an HTML object

In a product description, we can add HTML tags so that we can use the <object> tag. With an <object> tag, we can embed widgets, such as a YouTube video, social widgets, and more.

In this recipe, we will focus on how to add a YouTube video in a product description.

Getting ready

Go to http://www.youtube.com, and choose a video that you want to show on the product detail page.

How to do it

The next steps shows you how to embed a YouTube video on a product detail page.

  1. On the YouTube video page, click on the Embed button. When you click this button, the following screen shows up:
    How to do it
  2. Copy the HTML code and paste it in the description of the product.
  3. Save the product.
  4. Go to the product in the frontend. You will see the video on the Product page.

How it works

The ability to use HTML tags in product descriptions gives a lot of flexibility for this field. It is possible to use a WYSIWYG editor for the content because this allows us to use widgets, such as a YouTube video...

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