Can't get youtube video to play on thickbox popup on wordpress site

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  gamedayapplications · Member · Oct 26, 2013 at 4:44 pm

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  How do I get the youtube video to play once the popup comes up using class=thickbox? Below is the code. The popup comes up when you click on the button, but the video does not appear. This is a wordpress.com site.

  <a class="thickbox" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW5H-u0ukqs"><img class="alignnone  wp-image-763" style="margin-top:3px;margin-bottom:3px;" alt="likedbutton" src="http://unknownmoviemachine.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/buttontrailer9.png" width="180" height="32" /></a>

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  timethief · Member · Oct 26, 2013 at 4:46 pm

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  As fare as I know the thickbox workaround ceased to function a few years back.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 26, 2013 at 4:50 pm

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  Here’s a link to the old workaround that could be used if we purchased the CSS upgrade way back then https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/popup-box-for-images?replies=11#post-356048

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  gamedayapplications · Member · Oct 28, 2013 at 7:51 pm

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  I have thickbox working on my site for images. But can it work for videos? So when the popup appears, a youtube video will start playing on it.

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  designsimply · Member · Dec 21, 2013 at 9:02 pm

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  Just to confirm, that workaround will not work with videos.