Help with tumblr’s video block CSS

[GeoUranda]

Hi! I need help with some coding for my tumblog. I want my videos and Spotify players that I post or reblog to be able to fill out the white area like my pictures do. I have fixed this with my photosets, but can’t figure a way to do this with my video block.

Here is a link to my tumblog if it helps.
http://beardthegiant.tumblr.com/

Thanks in advance.

[GeoUranda]

Would like it if TheDoc came to help.

[chrisburton]

@GeoUranda Set the width to 350px

[GeoUranda]

This is the code and you really can’t change it to anything besides 250,400,500, and some other options.

{block:Video}

{Video-400}
{VideoEmbed-400}

{/block:Video}

[chrisburton]

@GeoUranda You can’t change any of those from 400 to 350?

e.g.

{block:Video}

{Video-350}
{VideoEmbed-350}

{/block:Video}

[GeoUranda]

No, the video won’t show up if you do. It’s just weird tumblr parameters.

[chrisburton]

@GeoUranda and you said you can’t change any CSS to your site’s theme?

[GeoUranda]

Well I can, but I wouldn’t know how to go about doing it. I didn’t make this particular theme, but I did a lot of my own patch ups if you know what I mean. I edited it a lot. Mostly the customCSS part though so not too much.

[chrisburton]

@GeoUranda Try editing your custom CSS and add this

#outerWidgetContainer {
width: 350px;
}

[GeoUranda]

Where in the code should I add it?

[TheDoc]

Unfortunately there’s no real easy way to do this with CSS. In our themes we generally use some simple jQuery:

function resizeVideo(newPosts) {
var videos;
if( newPosts === undefined ) {
videos = $(“#blog #posts article.type-video”);
} else {
videos = $(newPosts).filter(‘.type-video’); // infinite scroll has kicked in
}

videos.each( function() {
var video = $(this).find(“.video iframe, .video embed”);

video.css({opacity: 0});

// resize video to 460px and retain aspect ratio
var videoHeight = video.height()
var videoWidth = video.width();

var videoRatio = (videoHeight / videoWidth);

var newWidth = 460;
var newHeight = Math.floor(newWidth*videoRatio);

video
.removeAttr(‘height width’)
.width(“100%”)
.height(newHeight)
.css(‘opacity’,1);

$(this).find(‘.tumblr_video_container’).height(newHeight).width(‘100%’);

});

} // end resizeVideo

On page load it gets called like this:

resizeVideo();

Then when infinite scroll gets kicked in it gets called like this:

resizeVideo(newElements);

Obviously you’d need to change a few of these things to get it up and running. Simple CSS changes aren’t going to properly alter the iframes, I’m afraid.

[GeoUranda]

So how would I go about doing this? I’ve had little exposure to HTML and CSS to be honest.

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