Maybe you can use the onFinish callback: http://mjijackson.com/shadowbox/doc/api.html
$(window).load(function(){ var options = { onFinish:function() { // do what you want here // resize the shadowbox etc... } }; Shadowbox.init(options); }); On 5 Sep., 10:15, Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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