Scale iFrame css width 100% like an image
I want to scale an iFrame through CSS to width: 100%, and the height should scale proportionally to the width.
With an <img> tag this works fine.
Both the image and the iFrame have defined width and height in the html.
Here some examples:
<html>
<style>
#a{ width: 500px; }
img{ width: 100%; height: auto }
</style>
<body>
<div id="a">
<img src="http://lorempixel.com/200/150/" width="200" height="150" />
</div>
</body>
This works great on images, but I would like the same behaviour for iFrames:
<html>
<style>
#a{ width: 900px; background: grey;}
iframe{ width: 100%; height: auto }
</style>
<body>
<div id="a">
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RksyMaJiD8Y" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</body>
The iFrame renders 100% wide but does not scale it's height proportional like the image does.
Answer
Big difference between an image and an iframe is the fact that an image keeps its aspect-ratio. You could combine an image and an iframe with will result in a responsive iframe. Hope this answerers your question.
Check this link for example : http://jsfiddle.net/Masau/7WRHM/
HTML:
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="h_iframe">
<!-- a transparent image is preferable -->
<img class="ratio" src="http://placehold.it/16x9"/>
<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WsFWhL4Y84Y" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
<p>Please scale the "result" window to notice the effect.</p>
</div>
CSS:
html,body {height:100%;}
.wrapper {width:80%;height:100%;margin:0 auto;background:#CCC}
.h_iframe {position:relative;}
.h_iframe .ratio {display:block;width:100%;height:auto;}
.h_iframe iframe {position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%; height:100%;}
note: This only works with a fixed aspect-ratio.