Change YouTube Video Player Skin Colors

Monday, 18 June 2012
One of the best thing about YouTube.com is, they allow you to embed most of YouTube videos in web pages and blogs. Recently, they changed default color of embed player and their own player on YouTube.com but you still can change YouTube.com player's skin color while using embed code. Officially, they are not allowing you to change skin color via YouTube.com however here is a useful trick to change YouTube video player's skin color.



Change YouTube Video Player Skin Colors



Video Player Example 1: Theme=Light , Color=Red









Video Player Example 2: Theme=Dark, Color=White







You need to add few parameters in YouTube video embed code, make sure you have added a ? (question mark) in the parameter.


<iframe height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3K8TH8LBs-w?theme=dark&color=white" width="620"></iframe>


Here are the values you can use in the parameters to change to video player skin color.