Custom container for videos

  • Resolved geotheory

    (@geotheory)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    I’m looking for an efficient way of customising the size of an embedded video. Currently they are too wide and expand into the side-bar area:
    http://geotheory.co.uk/blog/2012/01/20/twitter-map/

    Grateful is anyone can provide an elegent solution to this – preferably a simple container with customisable width setting (absolute or relative) as I’m trying to avoid messing around in CSS.

    Many thanks 🙂

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  • Andrew Bartel

    (@andrew-bartel)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    When you embed youtube videos there’s a width value, should be something like width=700, just change that to whatever you need it to be.

    Thread Starter geotheory

    (@geotheory)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    I’m confused. What embed method are you referring to? I don’t ’embed’ video’s using the WP ‘Add Media’ facility because then videos doesn’t display in the post except as a hyperlink to YouTube. But if I just include the video’s URL in the post it embeds as a clear video. But this way there is no container to customise dimensions..

    Andrew Bartel

    (@andrew-bartel)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Try using the embed method provided by YouTube, it will give you more customization. When you’re on the video’s page, hit share and then copy/paste the embed code instead of just the url.

    Thread Starter geotheory

    (@geotheory)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Spot on and exactly what I need! Thanks Andrew.

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