CSS for Resizing Video
Just a handy chunk of CSS to make your video embeds behave better. It’s out there but not a bad thing to spread farther.
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I’ve used very similar css before- note that the padding-bottom value works for landscape oriented videos but if embedding a flipped phone video you need a value like 8o% (I’ve managed by pulling the selector out of the container class and using two other additional classes for .portrati and .landscape
In WordPress I use the Fluid Video embeds lugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/fluid-video-embeds/ that adds the fluid sizing to suit embeds. I only had one them where it failed (I think it was already applying it)