Lightboxes + Video

Webflow's lightboxes support video, and use the same Embedly system behind the scenes.

This means that anything you can use in a typical Video element, you should be able to use in a lightbox as well.

YouTube Tricks

Each platform will have different capabilities, but here are a few tricks that you can do with lightboxed YouTube videos.

Start at a specific time

A typical YouTube video link will look like this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

You can specify a starting time ( in seconds ), by appending a t parameter, like so;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&t=36

Autoplay video when the lightbox opens

Autoplay can also work in this setup, e.g.;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&autoplay=1

Because a user action is required to open the lightbox, browsers like Chrome will register that as a valid user action and will allow the video to autoplay even though it is not muted.

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