Can nobody help out with this?
On Sep 3, 12:06 pm, Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On our website I am using a shadowbox to view videos hosted on another
> site in the product page window. The problem is that recently the
> company hosting the videos have started providing several different
> size of videos.
>
> All the different video pages, however, have an element with an ID of
> container as the only child of the body element (in 2 cases it's a
> table, in a third a div, but all have an id of container). I found
> that if I can manually resize the shadowbox by getting the clientwidth
> and clientheight of the #container element and setting the width and
> height of the shadowbox to these values I can get the shadowbox to
> perfectly contain the video without excess space.
>
> The problem is that I can't find a way of grabbign the width and
> height from within a script and applying the new size. I tried typing
> $('#shadowbox_content').content().find ('#container') into the firebug
> console and got a permission denied error.
>
> Additionally, the iFrame doesn't exist until the shadowbox opens, so I
> need to find a way to get the iframt content when the iframe loads but
> to do it wit han iframe that doesn't exist until the containing
> shadowbox opens.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> The only other solution I have it to just make the shadowbox big
> enough to hold any video size, but then there's a lot of white space
> in the shadowbox when the video is smaller than this. Here are a few
> pages that use the shadowbox that show the problem:
>
> http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/A0234261<- Biggest
> sizehttp://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/3DCONX01<- Most 3D Connexion
> videoshttp://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/WAC123<- Most videos on the site
> are this size
