YouTube video with delayed loading

I found on the internet, a way to do the deferred loading of youtube videos in Bootstrap Studio.
I was using BSS components, but only the youtube library takes 2 seconds to load, so I found this code, tested it and it worked.
Before test images.

BSS component.

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Video with delayed loading

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Now the code

HTML

<div class="wrapper">
        <div class="youtube" data-embed="AqcjdkPMPJA">
            <div class="play-button"></div>
        </div>
</div>

CSS

html {
	background-color: #f3f3f3;
}
.wrapper {
	max-width: 680px;
	margin: 60px auto;
	padding: 0 20px;
}

.youtube {
	background-color: #000;
	margin-bottom: 30px;
	position: relative;
	padding-top: 56.25%;
	overflow: hidden;
	cursor: pointer;
}
.youtube img {
	width: 100%;
	top: -16.82%;
	left: 0;
	opacity: 0.7;
}
.youtube .play-button {
	width: 90px;
	height: 60px;
	background-color: #333;
	box-shadow: 0 0 30px rgba( 0,0,0,0.6 );
	z-index: 1;
	opacity: 0.8;
	border-radius: 6px;
}
.youtube .play-button:before {
	content: "";
	border-style: solid;
	border-width: 15px 0 15px 26.0px;
	border-color: transparent transparent transparent #fff;
}
.youtube img,
.youtube .play-button {
	cursor: pointer;
}
.youtube img,
.youtube iframe,
.youtube .play-button,
.youtube .play-button:before {
	position: absolute;
}
.youtube .play-button,
.youtube .play-button:before {
	top: 50%;
	left: 50%;
	transform: translate3d( -50%, -50%, 0 );
}
.youtube iframe {
	height: 100%;
	width: 100%;
	top: 0;
	left: 0;
}

JS

( function() {

	var youtube = document.querySelectorAll( ".youtube" );
	
	for (var i = 0; i < youtube.length; i++) {
		
		var source = "https://img.youtube.com/vi/"+ youtube[i].dataset.embed +"/sddefault.jpg";
		
		var image = new Image();
				image.src = source;
				image.addEventListener( "load", function() {
					youtube[ i ].appendChild( image );
				}( i ) );
		
				youtube[i].addEventListener( "click", function() {

					var iframe = document.createElement( "iframe" );

							iframe.setAttribute( "frameborder", "0" );
							iframe.setAttribute( "allowfullscreen", "" );
							iframe.setAttribute( "src", "https://www.youtube.com/embed/"+ this.dataset.embed +"?rel=0&showinfo=0&autoplay=1" );

							this.innerHTML = "";
							this.appendChild( iframe );
				} );	
	};
	
} )();

Source
How to “Lazy Load” Embedded YouTube Videos (codepen.io)

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I made an online component a couple of years ago called Youtube video Lazyload 2020. It’s a Bootstrap 4 component, but it seems to update to Bootstrap 5 with no issues.

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdPBcSIfLRE" target="_blank"><img loading="lazy" class="img-fluid" src="assets/img/blabla.jpg" alt="blabla"></a>
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