How to display YouTube video on the left and text on the right?

  • Hi All, I have started using WordPress and I want to display some videos on a page. I would like the videos on the left and some text about the video on the right. I would like 3 to 6 videos per page.

    I can get the videos to display properly with the following code [embed width="123" height="456"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTPcEco-yoc[/embed] but I don’t know how to put some text to the right of the video?

    I tried to use an HTML table, with the video in the left column and text in the right, but I end up with the video being high up in its cell and/or the text being low down in its cell.

    If I could trouble you to point me the right direction, that would be most helpful!

    I am using the “Twenty Eleven” Theme.

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  • Hi,

    Install any free page builder. Split page into two columns and that’s it!

    Thread Starter TonyHine

    (@tonyhine)

    Hi Deyo?

    Re:- >>>Install any free page builder. Split page into two columns and that’s it!<<<

    I have installed the plugin “siteorigin-panels.2.2.1.zip” and now I get the following error message when I try and edit a page?

    500 – Internal server error.
    There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.

    I suspect there’s something I need to do so I am researching however if you can point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated

    Thread Starter TonyHine

    (@tonyhine)

    I’ve deactivated the plugin and the error has gone away so I will see if there are other plugins that don’t cause a problem

    Thread Starter TonyHine

    (@tonyhine)

    It turns out the problems I was experiencing was because WordPress needed updating. The automatic on-line update facility wasn’t working properly so I installed WordPress via an FTP client and everything is now fine. However I still haven’t found a way of displaying YouTube videos simply in a table. One thread mentioned that the Theme Twenty TwentyFive (I think) had excellent support for HTML. I wondered if anyone could confirm this, and/or recommend a theme that has good support for HTML, particularly tables. I am aware that it is not considered good practice to use tables for layout, but I can’t think of an alternative… What I want to do is store the YouTube code along with some applicable text for the Video in a spreadsheet. I use some simple code which concatenates the text into an HTML table which I can paste straight into a webpage.

    Thread Starter TonyHine

    (@tonyhine)

    Well I think I’ve got the answer….

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
table, th, td {
    border: 1px solid black;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<table style="width:100%">
  <tr>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Savings</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="70%">January</td>
    <td width="30%">$100</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>February</td>
    <td>$80</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<p>The width attribute is not supported in HTML5. Use CSS instead.</p>

</body>
</html>

    From:- https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_td_width

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