[Soundy]

I want to make a text link to a YouTube video and NOT embed it... how to do??

[mb_]

[url ] YouTube link [/ url]

No spaces in brackets
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[SkinnyPupp]

Or go to advanced and DE-select "Automatically parse links in text"

[Soundy]

mb: Tried it that way, it just replaced my text with the thumbnail.

SP: Thanks!

[Soundy]

Grrr, that didn't work either, at least not in Preview. Trying to do something like this:

This is the [ url="httx://xxx.youtube.com/blahblahblah"]link to my video[/ url]

So it should look like:

This is the link to my video

But all I get, no matter what I've tried, is:

This is the

**EMBEDDED VIDEO**

[Lomac]

This is a test (youtube.com/watch?v=MRli4FfzAIA)

Ah hah. Just delete the "http://www." portion of the link.

[Soundy]

THAT worked... thanks!

Now I just hope what I linked to doesn't get me banned... failstorm incoming, I'm sure.

[SkinnyPupp]

Why would you not want to embed that?

[Soundy]

Did you click it?

The embed shows the video title overlay... that ruins the surprise ;)

[SkinnyPupp]

I see :lawl: