Update: YouTube appear to have listened to users’ comments, and made a second update in a day – the search box now only displays when you hover over the video.
Here’s what it looks like:
Understandably, many people might want to remove this “feature” – so here’s how:
(The YouTube api has been updated to mention this, so it appears to be a supported method)
- In your embed code, find the url for the flash player (it is in there twice if you are using the standard YouTube embed code)
- Add the parameter showsearch=0 (by adding “&showsearch=0″ to the url)
- There is no step three – the video shouldn’t be showing the search box any more.
The video should now look like this:
Code:
<object classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ width=”425″ height=”344″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true” /><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always” /><param name=”src” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/4Cq4O_z5Blo&hl=en&fs=1&showsearch=0″ /><embed type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”344″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/4Cq4O_z5Blo&hl=en&fs=1&showsearch=0″ allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true”></embed></object>
I’m sure some people will find that useful when they look at their blogs today …
Tim W
