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

I had this same issue and the problem was simple to solve. My videos were embedded in Wordpress pages and posts using oEmbed. Wordpress was wrapping my embedded videos in

tags, the

tags had some margin which was causing black borders on the top and bottom of my videos. I used the following bit of jQuery to remove the

tags from my embedded videos:

$('.embed-container iframe').unwrap();