# Vimeo

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/vimeo/47959>\
**Category:** Elements\
**Created:** [June 7, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/vimeo/47959 "2025-06-07T18:41:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![jwDave](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/jwdave/32/31841_2.png) [@jwDave](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jwDave)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/vimeo/47959/1 "2025-06-07T18:41:09Z")

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I have added the following HTML to Elements but it doesn’t work, I just get a blank screen, any help would be appreciated, of course I have exchanged “my\_video\_id” with a real id.

 ![Vimeo_embed](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/2/0/2016525a7787286ba38bb6bd01dd18294e906ea5.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![tpbradley](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/tpbradley/32/25503_2.png) [@tpbradley](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/tpbradley)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/vimeo/47959/2 "2025-06-07T21:02:08Z")

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Hi @jwDave,

That looks like the code for an entire web page and won’t work in a custom component. You’d have to extract the styles and the HTML within the body tags.

However, Elements already supports playing Vimeo files. All you need to do is drag the Vimeo link from your browser to Elements resources, then add a Video component and set the video resource.

There’s more information about the Video component here [Video | RapidWeaver Elements Docs](https://docs.realmacsoftware.com/elements-docs/elements-app/components/built-in-components/video#how-to-add-video)

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**Author:** ![jwDave](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/jwdave/32/31841_2.png) [@jwDave](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jwDave)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/vimeo/47959/3 "2025-06-07T21:26:53Z")

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Wow, thanks for your reply, I will give it a shot asap!

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**Author:** ![Adam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@Adam](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Adam)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2026, 7:22am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/vimeo/47959/4 "2026-05-04T07:22:49Z")

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Hello Tom, the Video component only supports adding Vimeo files if they’re “public”, which is rather frustrating. It took me ages to work out what the problem was, and when I did make the video “public” it notified all my subscribers that I’d uploaded a new video, which is a real pain in the bum – suddenly my number one video on vimeo was a graphical header element and several followers (not unreasonably) unsubscribed. That was even though I changed the Vimeo privacy setting back to “hide from vimeo” as soon as Elements had “on-boarded” it!

**Feature request:**

please can you make the component accept Vimeo videos that are “unlisted” and “hidden from vimeo”. Thanks!