YouTube Video Embedded via iframe Ignoring z-index?

Question

Try adding wmode, it seems to have two parameters.

&wmode=Opaque

&wmode=transparent

I can't find a technical reason why it works, or much more explanation but take at look at this query.

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lzQgAR_J1PI?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" wmode="Opaque">

or this

//Fix z-index youtube video embedding
$(document).ready(function (){
    $('iframe').each(function(){
        var url = $(this).attr("src");
        $(this).attr("src",url+"?wmode=transparent");
    });
});

Joshc's answer was on the right track, but I found that it totally deletes the ?rel=0 querystring and replaces it with the ?wmode=transparent item - which has the effect of displaying the YouTube Suggested Videos list at the end of the playback, even though you originally didn't want this to happen.

I changed the code so that the src attribute of the embedded video is scanned first, to see if there is a question mark ? in it already (because this denotes the presence of a pre-existing query string, which might be something like ?rel=0 but could in theory be anything that YouTube choose to append in the future). If there's a query string already there, we want to preserve it, not destroy it, because it represents a setting chosen by whoever pasted in this YouTube video, and they presumably chose it for a reason!

So, if ? is found, the wmode=transparent will be appended using the format: &mode=transparent to just tag it on the end of the pre-existing query string.

If no ? is found, then the code will work in exactly the same way as it did originally (in toomanyairmiles's post), appending just ?wmode=transparent as a new query string to the URL.

Now, regardless of what may or may not be on the end of the YouTube URL as a query string already, it gets preserved, and the required wmode parameters get injected or added without damage to what was there before.

Here's the code to drop into your document.ready function:

$('iframe').each(function() {
  var url = $(this).attr("src");
  if (url.indexOf("?") > 0) {
    $(this).attr({
      "src" : url + "&wmode=transparent",
      "wmode" : "opaque"
    });
  }
  else {
    $(this).attr({
      "src" : url + "?wmode=transparent",
      "wmode" : "opaque"
    });
  }
});

Just add one of these two to the src url:

&wmode=Opaque

&wmode=transparent

<iframe id="videoIframe" width="500" height="281" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xxxxxx?rel=0&wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I have the same problem on YouTube iframe embeds only in internet explorer though.

Z-index was being ignored totally, or the flash video was just appearing at highest index possible.

This was what I used, slight adapting the above jquery script.

My embed code, straight from YouTube...

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QldZiR9eQ_0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

The jQuery slighty adapted from the above answer...

$('iframe').each( function() {
    var url = $(this).attr("src")
    $(this).attr({
        "src" : url.replace('?rel=0', '')+"?wmode=transparent",
        "wmode" : "Opaque"
    })
});

Basically if you don't select Show suggested videos when the video finishes in your embed settings, you have a ?rel=0 at the end of your "src" url. So I've added the replace bit in case ?rel=0 exists. Otherwise ?wmode=transparent won't work.

We can simply add ?wmode=transparent to the end of YouTube URL. This will tell YouTube to include the video with the wmode set. So you new embed code will look like this:-

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/C4I84Gy-cPI?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

Only this one worked for me:

<script type="text/javascript">
var frames = document.getElementsByTagName("iframe");
    for (var i = 0; i < frames.length; i++) {
        src = frames[i].src;
        if (src.indexOf('embed') != -1) {
        if (src.indexOf('?') != -1) {
            frames[i].src += "&wmode=transparent";
        } else {
            frames[i].src += "?wmode=transparent";
        }
    }
}
</script>

I load it in the footer.php Wordpress file. Code found in comment here (thanks Gerson)