Dynamically resizing an embeded video with jQuery?

Question

I've tried a few ways but nothing seems to work. What I'd like to do is have my users post video's with the given embed code (example):

<object id="cnbcplayer" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="400" height="380" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;
 <param name="type" value="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
 <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
 <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
 <param name="quality" value="best" />
 <param name="scale" value="noscale" />
 <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
 <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
 <param name="salign" value="lt" />
 <param name="src" value="http://plus.cnbc.com/rssvideosearch/action/player/id/1398301408/code/cnbcplayershare" />
 <param name="name" value="cnbcplayer" />
 <embed id="cnbcplayer" 
        type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
        width="400" 
        height="380" 
        src="http://plus.cnbc.com/rssvideosearch/action/player/id/1398301408/code/cnbcplayershare" 
        name="cnbcplayer" 
        salign="lt" 
        bgcolor="#000000" 
        wmode="transparent" 
        scale="noscale" quality="best" 
        allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true">  
 </embed>

But then, I want to resize it to be 300px wide. I've tried updating the attributes with jQuery but that didn't work. Any ideas on what could solve this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Try to place object with width: "100%" into a div and resize that div container.