Styling the new twitter widget (embedded timeline)

Question

A few days/weeks ago, some of my sites' twitter widgets stopped pulling through data properly. Turns out Version 2 twitter widget is deprecated, and the new embedded timeline widget is the only way to go, apparently.

https://dev.twitter.com/blog/planning-for-api-v1-retirement

Except this new widget creates an iframe, which prevents any custom styling of the widget from within my own stylesheets - such as setting the font family, font size, colours, etc.

Is there a workaround? From what I'm reading, you can't apply / inject styles into an iframe, and I can't find any API-way of doing it.

I'd also like to limit the widget to just the 3 most recent tweets; not sure if that's possible anymore, and to remove the vertical scroll bar (probably related to limiting the tweets).

Answer 1

Instead of targeting individualy the elements with jQuery you can try to inject some inline css style into the head of the page loaded inside the iframe, so new content loaded by the "show more" button will also be changed :

for example to remove avatars pictures :

$("iframe#twitter-widget-0").contents().find('head').append('<style>img.u-photo.avatar{display:none !important;}.header.h-card.p-author{padding-left:0;}</style>');

I use the waituntilexists.js plugin to detect when the content is added to DOM instead of the setTimeout(): https://gist.github.com/buu700/4200601

so we have :

$("iframe#twitter-widget-0").waitUntilExists(function(){
    $("iframe#twitter-widget-0").contents().find('head').append('<style>img.u-photo.avatar{display:none !important;}.header.h-card.p-author{padding-left:0;}</style>');     
});

Answer 2

The only solution I found with Twitter's Enhanced Timeline is to use javascript to modify the css after the iframe has loaded.

Needed to use window.setTimeout for it. As jamesnotjim mentioned, make sure you put this in the script block below the body tag.

window.setTimeout(function(){
    $(".twitter-timeline").contents().find(".e-entry-title").css("font-family","sans-serif");
    $(".twitter-timeline").contents().find(".tweet").css("font-family","sans-serif");
  }, 1000);