fancybox 2.0.4 and Vimeo

Question

i have a lot of difficulties to integrate the new fancybox (V.2.0.4 g81c12d7) with the new iframe vimeo embed code. does somebody have a solutions?

Answer 1

Yes, the easiest way is to use the new vimeo's "universal player" to embed your videos.

Follow this steps:

A). From the vimeo page choose of one of your videos, then select the icon "embed" (over the video).

B). Get the iframe code that looks like:

C). Extract the content of the src attribute and set it as the href of your link like:

open vimeo in fancybox

D). Your fancybox (v2.x) custom script then should look like:

Notice I got the width and height from the iframe code.

UPDATE (Jun 25th, 2013) : another easier and simple way to watch vimeo videos in fancybox (v2.1.5 as today) is using the fancybox media helpers. Check https://stackoverflow.com/a/17202629/1055987 for further reference.