could anyone please help me with a problem I have been having with a 100% - 350px layout for embedding vimeo video?
It seems like the right-margin property is getting ignored here, and the layout is overflowing to the right. I'm hoping this a simple mistake, but seems like I've tried everything. I'm running out of time.
Help would be really appreciated.
css:
#container {
position:absolute;
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
#content {
width:100%;
height:100%;
margin-left:350px;
margin-right:350px;
}
.video {
padding:0 0 0 0;
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
html (the vimeo embed code has been reformatted for validation):
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
<object class="video" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8808526&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff">
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
<param name="color" value="ffffff" />
<param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8808526" />
</object>
<div style="clear:both; height:1px; line-height:0"> </div>
</div>
</div>
EDIT: Another solution I have tried:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style>
#container {
position:absolute;
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
#content {
margin-left: 350px;
margin-right: 0px;
}
.video {
padding:0 0 0 0;
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
<object class="video" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8808526&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff">
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
<param name="color" value="ffffff" />
<param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8808526" />
</object>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
</head>
Edit: I'm using the solution for this type of positioning from this thread: How can I do width = 100% - 100px in CSS?
The width of an element does not necessarily prevent elements contained within it from overflowing that element.
If you wish things outside your DIV not to display, set its overflow to hidden:
overflow: hidden
.I'm not even sure if I'm understanding your issue properly, to be honest. A clarification of what you're actually hoping to achieve might be helpful if I'm complete misreading you.
EDIT BELOW
Your approach is a bit strange, try this:
Additionally, you're trying to size the video with CSS -- CSS isn't going to have any effect on an object. If you were to change, say, to
video { width: 50px; }
it would not make your video 50px wide.In order to make the video smaller to stop at the right hand side of the screen (fit to the screen), you'll have to drop some of the 100% attributes and make a few more edits. Here's the new CSS and HTML.
CSS
HTML
EDIT As Emile rightly pointed out, for some reason this only works if you don't set a DOCTYPE for your document. Otherwise it works in Chrome, but Firefox shows a blank screen. After some testing I concluded that this has to do with the percentage widths given for the video object. Firefox doesn't support that.
As Vimeo (unlike YouTube) doesn't allow URL parameters to be passed for determining the video size, and percentage widths apparently have quirks, my only other suggestion would be to specify a fixed width and height on the video object (like on this page, see the page source), set the visibility of the content DIV to invisible, use a Javascript or jQuery function to determine the page width, change the width/height attributes of the OBJECT tag accordingly, and set the object to visible again. It's not very neat, but it'll probably work, and it would be independent of doctype.
EDIT I have implemented this solution, and it works in all browsers. See my separate new answer about it.
Here is a jQuery solution that works with multiple doctypes and in Chrome, Firefox and IE. IE will possibly show a blank page, but this is a Vimeo issue and can be solved by updating the IE flash plugin as discussed here and very extensively here.
I have also placed the code online.
Thankyou very much Erik and littlegreen. I have found the problem. It seems that you can't use a DOCTYPE if you want to do this. I just took out the Doctype and xmlns it worked. Wierd but effective.