Some time ago, YouTube has introduced an HQ & HD streaming. Wider player was next logical step, but their implementation was a bit weird (triggering was somehow random o.O). After a few chaotic steps – for a while – there was nice, friendly player, wide and high as it could be, and everything was fine. And than, they have decided to fucked it up with pointless padding on sides, creating a black bar on each side, which was driving me crazy. Instead of returning it back, they’ve tried to make it look better, so the rounded corners were added O.O

I know that Google webdesigners suck, and I’ve learned to live with that, but this is too much. Lucky me, I’m using Opera as a primary browser, and one of the really useful features Opera have, is using my own style sheets for any domain I want. This is a really great thing, as I’m tweaking with it many website I’m often surfing on :)

So, I’ve created this little .css file consisting of 1 line of simple css, and it is fixing exactly that issue I’m bitching about in first section.

#watch-player-div embed {
  width: 100% !important;
  height: 565px !important;
  margin: 0 !important;
}

Here is the result:

youtube-player-fix

If you want this clean YouTube experience too, the Installation is pretty simple. Here are the steps:

youtube-opera-site-preferences

  • download the youtube-player-fix.css file
  • be a person who is using Opera as a web browser
  • open YouTube
  • right click on some non-active background, and choose “Edit Site Preferences…”
  • under the Display tab, you have a “My style sheet” option, where you can load the youtube-player-fix.css file
  • click OK, and you are done

From now on, every page hosted on domain youtube.com will render with this additional css.

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CSS file

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