til/css/display-responsive-iframe-maintaining-aspect-ratio.md

Display Responsive iframe Maintaining Aspect Ratio modern way

Generally when rendering an iframe, you'll specify the width and height properties to give it a fixed display size.

You can make the iframe responsively expand to the full width of its parent while maintaining its aspect ratio using a little CSS.

1. First, remove the width and height properties.
2. Second, add a wrapping iframe container:

<div class="iframe-container">
  <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7LDlUMMbv6k" ...></iframe>
</div>

3. Sprinkle on a little CSS to make it responsive:

.iframe-container {
  width: 100%;
  aspect-ratio: 16 / 9;
}

Ben Marshall has a whole guide to responsive iframes.