[ARCHIVED] How can I prevent YouTube link from embedding?

[emilyhargrove]

I have a table with images (buttons) on a page. I can easily link videos to the button if they are not from YouTube, but if I try to link a YouTube page to an image as a button, it automatically embeds the video below the button. How can I prevent that from happening? One link is not YouTube and the other 3 are, so if I can't remove the embedding of the YouTube it throws off the continuity of the resources.

Please help. Thanks!

[James · Accepted solution]

 @emilyhargrove  

If you are using the New Rich Content Editor, then it is a known deficiency that Canvas product managers have said will be addressed (they did not give a timeline).

In the meantime, this post explains how to disable inline previews with both versions of the Rich Content Editor: /blogs/greg/2020/05/13/inline-previews-in-the-rich-content-editor-old-and-new 

[abell118]

Hello

I tried to link to the "post explains how to disable inline previews" and appears to be broken? 

Regards

[jon_vik]

It seems to have moved here. The short version is to switch to HTML view and add class="inline_disabled" to the link, like so:

<a class="inline_disabled" href="https://www.youtube.com/...">Text about the youtube link</a>