Embed YouTube in Blogger

When I wrote the Bananas Explained post I tried my darndest to get the YouTube video to play directly in the page, instead of having to click a link. This is probably the world's easiest task for someone who knows HTML, but I was stumped. YouTube says "just paste this!" but that doesn't work. Several web pages describe how, and none of their methods worked either. So, when I figured it out, I decided to post it so anyone who goes googeling for this problem can find it.

Here's my Blogger public service announcement:
How to insert / embed a YouTube Video into a Blogger / Blogspot blog post:


First, find your video on YouTube. Select the text in the box labeled "Embed" and copy it (either press ctrl+c or select "copy" under the "edit" menu). Back in Blogger, open the "Edit Html" window, and paste the code in. This will not work if you paste it in the "Compose" window! Then, delete the object tags at the beginning and the end. If I type anything resembling the object tags blogger freaks out, so I'll just say they're within these things: <> and contain the word "object."
Once you do that, you can click "Preview" and the video should show up in your post. When you go back to "Edit Html" the code for the video will look totally different, but will still work. This is when you can change the size of the video by changing the numbers after width and height.

See? Nothing to it. I'm sure there are other ways that work, but I don't know them. Maybe someday I'll figure out Google videos!

As for this video, I don't even consider it funny. It just makes me want to stand up and cheer.