Embed Video or link to Youtube Video on App Lab Project

CS Principles Website and Tools Questions
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Thanks for the reply,

That’s what I thought. When I use the Open URL block, is there any switch which will stop the pop-up asking the user if they OK to leave the Code.org site? In other words, to simply go straight to the website (in my case to a YouTube video)?

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There is not - this is a security protocol to make sure that the user is aware that code.org is not hosting (and has no responsibility for) any content beyond that page.

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Yes, as mentioned above, you can use the
open(url);
command to cause the action of pushing a button to open a youtube video.
I have done this in my example here.
I have not found a way to embed yet, though.

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Is this an option yet? I have students who would like to embed an animated gif.

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Any update to app lab to allow videos??

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That should have been a separate post @vbrownsmith

for a while now you could add gifs and display them within applab
https://studio.code.org/projects/applab/25ecHgSwyqQrPq8ZwIhFrEO5fYk_r8cTzP_-6zeXwQ8
by setting it to a proper gif url or in this case an uploaded gif students should be able to display gifs by using <img> tag, not sure if this works with the set methods Applab has but this works

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I’m not aware of anything besides varriene’s workaround, so I’d be sure to submit this as a feature request so the engineers see it!

Thanks,
Michael K.