Question
YouTube full screen is unavailable?
- Posted on July 26, 2022
- HTMLApacheUbuntu
Asked by twc8ac35a8636
Hi for some reason the full screen button on a YouTube video doesn’t work when on a web page hosted on my Digital Ocean droplet. When clicking full screen it says “Full screen is unavailable”. Here’s a screenshot -
Another developer added the exact same code to his server on Cloudflare and the full screen button works.
I have no idea why it works on Cloudflare and not Digital Ocean.
Please can someone help fix this?
How is a server setting preventing full screen from working?
Here’s the HTML -
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name='robots' content='noindex, nofollow'>
</head>
<body>
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mQYRWvIj0Yw?mute=1&autoplay=1" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" width="100%" height="522px" scrolling="auto" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</body>
</html>
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Full screen now works! I have removed fullscreen ‘none’ from /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
This is the line it was removed from -
Hi @twc8ac35a8636,
This shouldn’t be related wheter you are under Cloudflare or DigitalOcean. What I would assume is there is an issue with your iframe.
Try with one of the following:
Some might be depricated however I do believe adding allow=“fullscreen;” to the iframe HTML tag would help.