In order to achieve standard compliance, one of the things i had to do was use the <object> tag to embed youtube videos. I had earlier encounter a problem where using that tag caused my layout to run. The problem was that WordPress, even with visual editor disabled, inserted <p> tags in between my <object> tag. The solution I found was to train up the tags, leaving no white spaces in between, instead of having them properly nested.

Here’s the XHTML valid code to embed youtube…

<object type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”355″ data=”youtube-link-goes-here”><param name=”movie” value=”youtube-link-goes-here” /><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent” /></object>