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Your LimeSurvey version: LimeSurvey Community Edition Version 5.6.3+230130
Own server or LimeSurvey hosting: Own server
Survey theme/template: BootsWatch
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When creating questions, we want to embed Youtube videos. So we click on the "Insert a Youtube video" button and past the embed link for the video. After that, the only thing we get is a red "Remove Video" button:


The source code generated looks like this:
<div class="videodetector"><iframe frameborder="0" src=""></iframe><input class="remove-videodetector" type="button" value="Remove video" /></div>

<p>/</p>

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Kind regards,
Louis

I thought I'd add some comments here. It's a very weird error - we also run LS3, and that runs without problems (well, apart from not being up-to-date), but this otherwise fresh LS5 installation somehow removes URLs to videos. Once you saved a question, LimeSurvey strips the content of the question to:

Does anybody have any idea why LimeSurvey would consider this a good idea?

Does anybody have any idea why LimeSurvey would consider this a good idea?

Most probably you told Limesurvey to do so, by activating the XSS filter.

Have a look if the XSS filter is on.

If the XSS filter is OFF and this still happens (and you are on the latest version of your Limesurvey branch) please create a bug report.

Hi,
1. Do not insert only this "src" into the LimeSurvey wizard, but enter the whole embed code from Youtube.
 

2. Do not use the HTML-Editor, but the "Source code editor". The HTML editor sometomes has its own ideas what to add to the code.
 

 

All done in the Cloud version 5.6.38.

To compare:
This is the result of the HTML-editor
 

Joffm

 

Hi,

Thanks for all the suggestions. I've now disabled the XSS filter but alas, that didn't seem to do anything in this regard. So using the source editor I pasted the full URL from Youtube; still no luck. But after having done that, I think I found the culprit. We had a pentest on our system and from the recommendations from that I had something like this in my Apache configuration:

After I commented out that line and restarted Apache, I could see the video in the question. To get that to work I indeed had to use the source editor as @Joffm suggested. Using the HTML editor still doesn't work.

Thanks for all the help.
Louis

Hello,
I am encountering the same issue despite the explanations on the forum. I am on version 5.6.49.I disabled the CSS filters and used the embedded Youtube code in the source editor.
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" sandbox="" scrolling="no" src=" www.youtube.com/embed/ xxxvideoIDxxx" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>

Would anyone have another idea?


 

Hi,
I do not see an issue (5.6.40)
But as said before: Use the source code editor, not the WYSIWYG editor

 

 

Joffm