Removing black borders on a vimeo iframe embed using CSS?

Question

I am trying to find a way to hide the black strips across the top and bottom of a vimeo video. I thought there might be a way to cover them up with CSS.

I basically

Answer 1

HTML:

  [video html goes here]

CSS:

.js-video {
  height: 0;
  padding-top: 25px;
  padding-bottom: 67.5%;
  margin-bottom: 10px;
  position: relative;
  overflow: hidden;
}

.js-video.widescreen {
  padding-bottom: 57.25%;
}

.js-video.vimeo {
  padding-top: 0;
}

.js-video embed, .js-video iframe, .js-video object, .js-video video {
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  position: absolute;
}

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