/superembed.js

Fluid width for YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, VideoPress, DailyMotion, and more embedded videos.

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SuperEmbed.js

Live demo now available at jsfiddle.net/h6x04LuL

SuperEmbed.js detects YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, VideoPress, DailyMotion, and more embedded videos on webpages and makes them responsive. Essentially, this means they strech to fill their container while still maintaining the original aspect ratio.

There's a lot of existing libraries that do this, but I had issues or just didn't like all the ones I tried, so I made my own. And this is it.

Features

  • Works without external libraries like JQuery
  • Works automatically with YouTube, Vimeo, Kickstarter, CollegeHumor, Hulu, Flickr, Vine, VideoPress, DailyMotion, Twitch.tv, and Vid.me embedded videos
  • Responsive videos maintain their original aspect ratio
  • Responsive layout can be forced or blocked with classes applied to the embed code
  • Extremely tiny, the minified version is only 1.6 KB

Browser support

Chrome Internet Explorer Firefox Safari Opera
4.0+ 9.0+ 3.5+ 3.2+ 10+

How to use

You can put the SuperEmbed script wherever you want on the page:

<script src="superembed.min.js"></script>

Then it will automatically resize any supported embedded videos. That's it.

Note: If you already use JQuery, and you load SuperEmbed sometime after it, it will use JQuery to detect when the page is loaded and the window is resized (instead of DOM JavaScript).

Advanced features

If you want to make an embedded video (or really any element) responsive, but it's not automatically detected by SuperEmbed, you can add the .superembed-force class to it like this:

<iframe src="http://www.example.com/video" class="superembed-force"></iframe>

You can also tell SuperEmbed to not resize a specific embed by adding the .superembed-ignore class, like this:

<iframe src="http://www.example.com/video" class="superembed-ignore"></iframe>

And finally, you can force a 1:1 aspect ratio by adding the .superembed-square class, like this:

<iframe src="http://www.example.com/video" class="superembed-square"></iframe>

New in SuperEmbed.js 2.3:

  • Now uses getComputedStyle to calculate width and height on supported browsers

New in SuperEmbed.js 2.2:

  • Fixes to avoid conflict with other libraries

New in SuperEmbed.js 2.1:

  • Now optionally uses JQuery for detecting page load and page resize, if JQuery is loaded before SuperEmbed

New in SuperEmbed.js 2.0:

  • Almost completely re-written, resizing is now handled by JS instead of CSS
  • Now videos maintain their original aspect ratio when resized, no more letterboxing
  • Minimum Internet Explorer version dropped to IE 9
  • The .superembed-square class now applies a 1:1 ratio, instead of a 4:3 ratio

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.