There are probably a million different blog posts and solutions to get Youtube to embed and still have valid html code. I think I tried about 999,999,998 of them before I finally got one to work.
I found that this works
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/0i-hy_0VWZ8"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0i-hy_0VWZ8" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /></object>
All you have to do is put in the URL for the youtube you want to link to and your good. I tested it in FireFox, Safari, Opera IE6, and IE7.
That's the good news. The bad news is that my font_size now does not work on my rollover for the books. It used to work, all the other things in the Resource_container.p work. I go in and change the color and the font changes color, but it does not change it's size. I wanted to put more information in the rollover but without being able to change the font size I'm out of luck. I am also running out of time. Any ideas on why this doesn't work will be welcome. For now my solution is to not put in too much data.
The other bad news is that the rollover works on everything but Opera, and the IE6 that I have. The IE6 does display it because it says it is an invalid Active X control. I've written invalid Active X controls before - this is not it. Oh well. The degraded functionality still shows the book and gives them the link.
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