{"id":960,"date":"2011-09-02T14:18:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2011\/09\/02\/how-to-add-video-link-to-website\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:52:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:52:49","slug":"how-to-add-video-link-to-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/how-to-add-video-link-to-website\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add a Video Link to your Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adding a video link to your website is very closely related to adding a link to a different webpage. The major difference is you will reference a link to the video on the server and not another webpage. We will start using the same &lt;a href&gt; tag you would use for a link to another page.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"code_block\">&lt;a href=&#8221;________&#8221;&gt;Click Here to Watch the Video&lt;\/a&gt;<\/p>\n<p>This is the basic link structure to link to a video you are storing on your account. You will need to fill in between the &#8220;___&#8221; with the correct path to the file. If you have a folder in your public_html called &#8220;media&#8221; and a video you want to link to called &#8220;my-video.wmv&#8221; then your code would look like this:<\/p>\n<p class=\"code_block\">&lt;a href=&#8221;media\/my-video.wmv&#8221;&gt;Click Here to Watch the Video&lt;\/a&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Now, any visitor that clicks on your link will automatically open the video from within their web browser. 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