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[patch]

Hi,

Not sure if this should be here or in the javascript forum ... but here goes...

I wonder if there is a way to do this:

I've got a wordpress blog with embedded youtube videos. When a visitor clicks the video it starts to play - so far so good.

If the visitor clicks on the video again, a new window opens and the visitor gets taken to the video page on youtube.

So, question is, is there a way to either stop the new window opening and the visitor begin taken away from my site or even to interrupt that process and redirect to another site of my choice or simply cancel that request?

Cheers,
Mark

[kurdt]

I haven't done this myself but you could try to wrap youtube code around div and then make a script that allows 1 click but after executes void(0); or something when trying to click in that div. Now I have no idea if this actually works and I can think of few things that might prevent it from working but it was the first thing that came to mind

*edit* Yeah and with that suggestion you effectively disable user from using player controls But if you want to go hifi, you could just do "allowed click field" based on pixel coordinates and that way make the bottom 20px clickable and the rest you can click only once.

[perkiset]

The code that comes down with the embedded controls that, you're not really going to be able to get in the way.

That said, if the video was z-indexed behind a transparent gif that covered the whole thing, and you trapped for clicks on that graphic (so that the event wouldn't bubble back up to the youtube vid) I believe you could effectively kill it. Never tried to z-index a TY vid behind something, but I don't see any reason why it can't be done (unless their code specifically tries to z-index it way way way out front...)

[patch]

Thanks guys,

I'll try to mess about with the z-index transparent gif way ...

[KaptainKrayola]

i don't know if this is still the case but it used to be that flash vids were z-indexed above everything (Except iframes) and there wasn't anything you could do about it.  May not be the case anymore but i remember running into that problem with dhtml menus back in the day.

[mystyle]

I saw this technique is still in use. I saw a site on the internet where you tube video is embedded  when user clicks on the video they are not redirected to the you tube sight but the video stops.This is the sight where you can see and download videos without redirecting to you tube the original site.Have a look on this site you could find the answer. www dot therockmission dot com/

Ah, and now we get to it URL munged.

[Phaëton]

i dont know javascript but perhpas you could hook the onstatechange event with
the youtube data api:

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/js_api_reference.html#Adding_event_listener

oh if only i had time to play with this...