Bootstrap, two responsive iframes, next to each other - twitter-bootstrap-3

Question

I would like to have a Twitch player with chat on my site. I need it to be responsive. I am working with Bootstrap.
I have this code
HTML:
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-1 nopadding">
<div id="player">
<div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9">
<iframe class="player" src="https://player.twitch.tv/?volume=1&channel=example&autoplay=false" style="border: 0px; top:0px;" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-2 nopadding">
<div id="chat">
<div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9">
<iframe class="chat" src="https://www.twitch.tv/example/chat?popout=" style="border: 0px;"></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-offset-1"></div>
</div>
CSS:
.nopadding {
padding: 0 !important; }
I am using this CSS to remove the padding from grid, I need to have player and chat next to each other, without padding.
The problem is that the chat is to small, exactly the height is too small. I can set the height in css, but this height won't change with the player's height. How can I fix that?

Answer 1

You can do this by setting the chat wrapper to absolute and then setting the iframe inside of it to have a width and height of 100% and position the chat-wrapper to left of 50% and give the row that it is all wrapped in a class and a position of relatve. Then at smaller screens you can position the chat wrapper to relative and left of 0 so that it will stack below the player when you get to mobile widths. Here is the markup I used. Also in the example I use col-sm but you can change it to col-md I just used sm because its easier to view in the fiddle demo.
Here is a fiddle demo drag the output screen larger and smaller to see the results at different screen sizes Fiddle Demo
Html:
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="row player-section">
<div class="col-sm-6 no-padding">
<div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9">
<iframe class="player" src="https://player.twitch.tv/?volume=1&channel=example&autoplay=false" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="chat-wrapper">
<iframe class="chat" src="https://www.twitch.tv/example/chat?popout="></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Css:
.no-padding{
padding:0;
}
iframe{
border:none;
}
.player-section{
position:relative;
}
.chat-wrapper{
position:absolute;
left:50%;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;
}
.chat-wrapper iframe{
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
#media screen and (max-width:767px){
.chat-wrapper{position:relative;height:300px;left:0;}
}

Answer 2

Another option is to create you own custom aspect ratios, as described in this blog.
If for example you want to show a pdf (A4 size) in your webpage, you can add the following to your style sheet:
.embed-responsive-210by297 {
padding-bottom: 141.42%;
}
Now you can add your custom stylesheet to your iframe:
<div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-210by297">
<iframe src="..."></iframe>
</div>
By customising the aspect ratio of the different iframes, you can align the heights of all iframes to match mutually. Another advantage is that you follow the bootstrap philosophy.