Youtube embed: how to set size & align center?

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  baskervillefan · Member · Jul 22, 2017 at 9:30 pm

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  Is there a non-murky way to set the size of a youtube [embed] element and align it center?

  When I tried this in Baskerville theme, the youtube embed has always used up the full page/post width, or at any rate it was left aligned, no matter what I did.

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  hacchism · Staff · Jul 23, 2017 at 12:29 am

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  Hi there,

  The following support page helps you. If you modify a shortcode, you can change width, height, and so on.

  Video Customization Options
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/#video-customization-options

  If you need further assistance, please let us know.
  Thanks :)

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  baskervillefan · Member · Jul 23, 2017 at 10:43 am

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  Thanks hacchism. Yes you’re right resizing the embed word.

  The real problem is that

  aligning

  apparently doesn’t work in Baskerville. The embedded video is always left aligned, no matter what shortcode or paragraph settings I add.

  @Wordpress: is it a Baskerville theme CSS bug? How can it be fixed?

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  hacchism · Staff · Jul 23, 2017 at 4:10 pm

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  Hi there,

  I think this is not the issue of the Baskerville theme. The Youtube shortcode doesn’t support a center alignment. Even if you add “&align=center” into Youtube shortcode, it doesn’t work. The same is true of other themes.

  In order to center-align your video, you need to select the youtube shortcode and press the “Align center” icon on the Visual editor. This works well on my end.

  Please try and let me know if it works well for you.
  Thanks :)

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  baskervillefan · Member · Jul 24, 2017 at 2:26 pm

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  so simple, I don’t believe it. It’s via the paragraph text-align property. I tried everything else.

  thank you hacchism, you saved the day!

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  hacchism · Staff · Jul 24, 2017 at 9:54 pm

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  My pleasure :)