Embeds on the canvas

An Embed puts someone else's page on your canvas: a video that plays where it sits, a Figma file, a Google Doc, or any website at all. They live in the palette's Media category, behind the Embed row — open it and pick the one you want.

Pick Website when the page you want isn't one of the named services. It frames the address exactly as you type it. Be aware that plenty of sites refuse to be shown inside another page (news sites and banks especially): when one does, the embed comes up blank. A website embed always carries an Open in a new tab control for exactly that case, and a link card is often the better tool from the start. See Website embeds for the detail.

Adding one

Nothing loads until you ask

An embed does not start on its own. A YouTube card shows the video's poster frame and waits for you to press play; every other service shows a named card with a Load embed button.

That is deliberate, and not only for tidiness. A board with eight videos would otherwise open eight players every time anyone looked at it, and simply opening a diagram would report you to those services. YouTube embeds play through youtube-nocookie.com, which sets nothing until playback actually starts.

Keeping the canvas usable

An embedded page would normally swallow every click inside its rectangle, which would leave a hole in your canvas that you could not drag or select. So the player ignores the pointer by default, even while it is playing — you can always drag an embed around.

When you want to use the player itself, two small controls appear in its top-left corner while it runs:

• Use the player hands the pointer over so you can seek, change the volume or go fullscreen. Press it again to get dragging back.
• Stop closes the player and returns to the card. This is also how you pause, since pausing means clicking the player.