YouTube has become the standard way for delivering high quality video on the web. Sometimes, when you embed a video in your web application or landing page, you need a great deal of control on what and how is displayed. This is why we are going to show you how you can use the YouTube JavaScript Player API.

Sometimes you just need to start a video playing by some user interaction on the page other than clicking right on that video itself. Perhaps a "Play Video" button of your own creation lives on your page and you want to start that video when that button is clicked. That's JavaScript territory. And if that video is a YouTube or Vimeo video, we'll need to make use of the APIs they provide. No problem. For these examples, we'll assume you've already picked out a video and you're going to put it on the page in an