Adding maxWidth variable that adds wrapper, retains original max width/height

[andyadams]

References issue #10. When the maxWidth option is set to true, an extra container is added that limits the size of the video to the originally-specified dimensions.

My text editor also strips out trailing whitespace, so there's a bunch of that removed as well :).

P.S. Chris, at WordCamp SF I totally ditched mid-talk upstairs to come and hear yours. It was awesome.

[joesavage]

The maxWidth functionality is really nice, but in the cases where I've tried to use it - it has proved something I've just had to put back to false. This is because stopping the video being 100% width, means that the video isn't centered within it's parent division (and hence looks completely ugly on the page). I can't really think of any obvious ways to fix this though. Would I be right in saying that it would require some heavier Javascript to center within the parent with a max-width (or am I just being stupid)?

[andyadams]

@joesavage,

If you wanted a video to be centered, you could add some styles to make it that way - maybe auto margins? I'm not a CSS master, but it would seem that this would be best handled by simply styling appropriately.

The use case I wrote this for is when someone really wants an embedded video to be a certain width - without my fix, the video would automatically become 100% width and nothing could be floated next to it, for example.

[joesavage]

@andyadams Unfortunately doing a simple "margin: 0 auto" requires a fixed width (you can't use min or max-width), hence I can't find any easy way to center the video. I agree that the maxWidth addition is very good for floating and stuff - but it's a shame that there is no easy way (that I can see) to center the video, as many people seem to use FitVids.js to put videos in content division (in which you'd want it to be centered).

EDIT: Actually, coming back to this, using automatic margins with a max-width seems to work fine :P

[mhulse]

Hi! Love this plugin. Just curious, has there been any movement on this patch?

[andyadams]

None from me - @joesavage ?

[dabernathy89]

This is a great idea. It really should be the default behavior, IMO. It's the same way we treat responsive images, particularly when they are floated with text.

[helgatheviking]

:+1: from me. It'd be nice to not expand the video to larger than its natural dimensions. That ends up looking blurry.

[davatron5000]

So I'm here, 2 years later, combing through PRs. :crying_cat_face:

I'd be interested in getting this into (the mythical) FitVids 2.0, but I wonder if could be done with just one setting instead of two:

maxWidth: false // default, do not wrap
maxWidth: true // set max-width to originalWidth
maxWidth: 900 // set max-width to 900px

Thoughts?

[graygilmore]

I think it only needs to be a single option.

[palewire]

+1

[pomartel]

I also think this should be the default behaviour. Other than that, the plugin works very nicely. Great job!

[rchrd2]

:+1: This fork worked for me

[shennan]

@davatron5000 Any movement on this?

[graygilmore]

@shennan looks like it's being included in the v2 attempt: http://codepen.io/davatron5000/pen/9fef11884a883855d8a1a187bac0cbfe