# Variable width using the Youtube Onebox, which is currently fixed
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/variable-width-using-the-youtube-onebox-which-is-currently-fixed/23319
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [December 21, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/variable-width-using-the-youtube-onebox-which-is-currently-fixed/23319 "2014-12-21T20:53:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Moter8](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moter8)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/variable-width-using-the-youtube-onebox-which-is-currently-fixed/23319/1 "2014-12-21T20:53:50Z")
Continuing the discussion from [How to embed youtube (and other) videos?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-embed-youtube-and-other-videos/5623/6):
> [@PabloC](#):
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> One suggestion regarding embedding videos.
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> The default width is 480.
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> I think that youtube now is using other default (640) and looks better.
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> Would be great if the default width is 640.
Would be great to be able to set it per video or automatically-wide as the post. I could not find another Plugin that lets me do this. [Example post w/ video](https://moter8.pw/t/wip-windows-10-installation/77) where I’m facing ugliness ☹
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### Author:  [@alttext](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alttext)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/variable-width-using-the-youtube-onebox-which-is-currently-fixed/23319/2 "2017-12-20T20:31:05Z")
I know this is an old request, but I, too would like to see this. It would really make the posts with videos look nicer, cleaner.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/variable-width-using-the-youtube-onebox-which-is-currently-fixed/23319/3 "2025-12-04T11:33:25Z")