Hi there, I’ve wrestled with this one a while. I can do it with custom CSS but can not find how to without? Works fine on MacBook Pro screen, but on larger Studio Display the video is cropped off in height so you can no longer see the mp4 controls. You can replicate on smaller screen by changing …

Will have a look at this today, but off the top of my head I’m thinking you might need to use the modal component instead for this :thinking: Let me chat to @ben and get back you on the right way to do this!

After doing a deeper dive, it appears the video should scale with the browser, but obviously doesn’t. So yeah, this is a bug! I’ve created a ticket for it to be fixed in the next build :sweat_smile:

Good news! @Doobox this should be fixed in Elements 1.3.5 :crossed_fingers:

@dan @ben I think it needs another look. You fixed it for mp4 videos, Thanks! But in the process you seem to have broken it for YouTube videos. They are now shrunk to the smallest possible size they are able to shrink to, in both the Lightbox and inline (default settings displays the issue using e…

Ah yes… we noticed that in our testing and it’s been fixed already, will be in a build early next week. Sorry for the delay!

Is this update still in the pipeline this week? Thanks for a fantastic product!

Yup, will drop shortly, stay tuned!

Sorry Guys, think it still needs more work. You can see its misbehaving on the Elements website as well bursting out of the container width. Image 1 edit mode. Image 2 preview after clicking play. [CleanShot 2025-10-09 at 6 .41.33@2x] [CleanShot 2025-10-09 at 6 .44.31@2x]

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ben (Ben) October 9, 2025, 6:12pm 13

I’ll check this one out again and see if we can get a fix out ASAP. Apologies for the inconvenience!

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