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How to Add an iframe Border Around a Video Embed

Last updated on July 14th, 2015 by Editorial Staff
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How to Add an iframe Border Around a Video Embed

Do you want to add an iframe border around your video embed? Recently a user asked us for a way to add a border around their videos in WordPress. Since you can use both iframe and oEmbed to add videos in WordPress, we will show you how to add an iframe border around a video embed as well as how to add a border around oEmbed videos in WordPress.

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Adding Border Around iframe Videos in WordPress

First thing you need to do is to open a post or page containing your iframe video embed code. A typical iframe embed code should looks something like this:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qzOOy1tWBCg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

You can add a border around it by adding inline style to the code like this:

<iframe style="border: 3px solid #EEE;" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qzOOy1tWBCg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

An iframe video embed with border around it

Simply change the width of the border as well as the color, and you’re done.

While adding an iframe border works, there is actually a better way to add a border around videos in WordPress. That’s by using oEmbed.

Adding Border Around oEmbed Videos in WordPress

WordPress comes with built-in oEmbed support. Basically WordPress allows you to paste the link of the video, and it will automatically get the embed code for them. Now this only works for oEmbed enabled sites such as YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, Hulu, etc. (See: how to easily add videos in WordPress using oEmbed)

Now that you know how to add a video with oEmbed, here is how you can add a border around oEmbed videos in WordPress.

When adding a video using oEmbed, simply wrap the URL in span tag with inline style parameters, like this:

<span style="border:3px solid #EEE;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzOOy1tWBCg</span>

If you want to add a same border around all video iframes, then it would be best to add a CSS class to your theme’s stylesheet.

.frame-border { 
border:3px solid #EEE; 
}

Now you can use the CSS class in your iframe embed code like this:

<iframe class="frame-border" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qzOOy1tWBCg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

You can also use the same CSS class in the span tag around your oEmbed video URLs, like this:

<span class="frame-border">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzOOy1tWBCg</span>

The benefit of using a single CSS class is that if you change themes later, then you can easily change the colors with one click vs going back and editing each video individually.

We hope this article helped you add an iframe border around a video embed in WordPress. You may also want to see these 9 useful YouTube tips to spice up your WordPress site with videos.

If you liked this article, then please subscribe to our YouTube Channel for WordPress video tutorials. You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook.

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  1. Nicola says:
    Dec 19, 2018 at 8:18 am

    There seems to be extra space at the bottom so it doesn’t fit exactly, how can I fix this please.
    thanks

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Dec 19, 2018 at 10:45 am

      If you’ve set the width and height you would likely need to change the height based on the dimensions of your video.

      Reply
  2. Thomas says:
    Dec 17, 2018 at 11:45 am

    The frame covers the video controls, how do i stop this happening? Cheers.

    Reply
  3. tom says:
    Oct 20, 2015 at 4:36 am

    I have got the border but can’t change the colour? How do I do this?

    Reply
    • eric greenspan says:
      Apr 19, 2016 at 10:00 pm

      Change the hex number Tom. For Dodger blue use: #1E90FF in place of #EEE. You can find hex colors here.

      Reply

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