That's basically what I've been experimenting with in the FireBug console, it results in a permission denied error being logged to the console.
On Sep 5, 1:15 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have just googled around for some time and found this in the jquery > docs:http://docs.jquery.com/Traversing/contents-> click example > so > var w = $ > ("#shadowbox_content").contents().find("#getsizefromthis").width() > var h = $ > ("#shadowbox_content").contents().find("#getsizefromthis").height() > // do something else with them > > I tested this in firebug and it thrown an error that read the > information of this element... > Just try it yourself maybe it works! > > On 5 Sep., 13:48, Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the help, this is a good start as it lets me hook into > > shadowbox load, but I'm still stuck with the other side of the > > problem. What I need to do is grab the width and height of an element > > contained within the iFrame and resize the elements that contain the > > iFrame based on those sizes. As the iFrame is displaying content from > > off-site it's causing a permission denied error (or at least I think > > that's what's causing it). > > > On Sep 5, 9:52 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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
