Tailwind CSS - Fluid Width Video

Introduction

Learned how to make YouTube videos from this CSS Tricks article, Fluid Width Video.

The following code snippet is a Tailwind CSS version of <iframe> Video (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) section._

Fluid Width iFrame Video

1. Add a wrapper element with following classes

   1. relative
   2. A Tailwind CSS padding extension

      1module.exports = {2  purge: [...],3  theme: {4    extend: { padding: { "fluid-video": "56.25%" } },5  },6  variants: {},7  plugins: [],8}

   3. Remove the wrapper height with h-0.

2. Position iframe with an absolute positioning on top left (top-0, left-0), with 100% width and height (w-full, h-full).

1<div id="responsiveVideoWrapper" className="relative h-0 pb-fluid-video">2  <iframe3    className="absolute top-0 left-0 w-full h-full"4    src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zihoyz0u_cs"5    allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"6    allowFullScreen7  ></iframe>8</div>

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