<div class="overlay">
  <div class="video-container">

    <!-- SVG Close (X) Icon -->
    <svg class="close" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="39.2 22.3 25 24.5"><path d="M39.5,46.4c0.2,0.2,0.6,0.4,0.9,0.4c0.3,0,0.6-0.1,0.9-0.4l10.3-10.3L62,46.4c0.2,0.2,0.6,0.4,0.9,0.4c0.3,0,0.6-0.1,0.9-0.4c0.5-0.5,0.5-1.3,0-1.8L53.5,34.3l9.8-9.8c0.5-0.5,0.5-1.3,0-1.8c-0.5-0.5-1.3-0.5-1.8,0l-9.8,9.8l-9.8-9.8c-0.5-0.5-1.3-0.5-1.8,0c-0.5,0.5-0.5,1.3,0,1.8l9.8,9.8L39.5,44.6C39,45.1,39,45.9,39.5,46.4z"/></svg>

    <!-- Embedded video -->
    <iframe id="video" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/104641191?api=1" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
  </div>
</div>

<header>
  <div>
    <h1>FullScreen Vimeo Popup with Autoplay and CSS3 Transitions</h1>
    <p>Here's a cool way to create a fullscreen vimeo video popup with auto play.</p>
    <span class="play"></span>
  </div>
</header>
/* Lazy-man Reset */
* {
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

/* Fullscreen Section */
header {
  width: 100%;
  /* 100% height */
  height: 100vh;
  color: white;
  background: #2980b9;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 20px;
  /* Fancy flex-box centering */
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  -webkit-display: flex;
  -webkit-align-items: center;
  -webkit-justify-content: center;
}

header h1 {
  font-size: 40px;
  font-family: 'Roboto';
  font-weight: 700;
  max-width: 700px;
  margin-bottom: 10px;
}

header p {
  font-family: 'Roboto Slab';
  font-weight: 400;
  font-size: 20px;
  max-width: 700px;
  margin-bottom: 20px;
  opacity: .65;
}

.play {
  width: 70px;
  height: 70px;
  background: #222;
  display: block;
  margin: 0 auto;
  /* Important for :after */
  position: relative;
  /* Makes a circle */
  border-radius: 50%;
}

.play:hover {
  background: #333;
  cursor: pointer;
}

.play:after {
  position: absolute;
  content: "";
  /* Centering */
  top: 50%;
  margin-top: -15px;
  left: 50%;
  margin-left:  -8px;
  /* CSS Triangle */
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
  border-style: solid;
  border-width: 15px 0 15px 20px;
  border-color: transparent transparent transparent #ffffff;
}

/* Fullscreen Overlay */
.overlay {
  width: 100%;
  height: 100vh;
  /* 50% opacity black */
  background: rgba(0,0,0,.5);
  /* Stays locked on scroll */
  position: fixed;
  /* On top of the rest*/
  z-index: 2;
  /* Hidden */
  opacity: 0;
  /* No interference */
  left: -100%;
  /* CSS3 Transition */
  transition: opacity .5s;
  -webkit-transition: opacity .5s;
}

/* 90% width container */
.video-container {
  width: 90%;
  /* Centering */
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
  -webkit-transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}

.close {
  width: 20px;
  fill: white;
  position: absolute;
  right: 0;
  /* Bring above video */
  top: -30px;
}

.close:hover {
  /* 50% opacity white */
  fill: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
  cursor: pointer;
}

/* Class to fade in overlay */
.show {
  opacity: 1;
}
// Scroll to the very bottom to see the stuff we wrote, the big giant blocks are:
// froogaloop
// and
// fitvid.js

;(function( $ ){

  'use strict';

  $.fn.fitVids = function( options ) {
    var settings = {
      customSelector: null,
      ignore: null
    };

    if(!document.getElementById('fit-vids-style')) {
      // appendStyles: https://github.com/toddmotto/fluidvids/blob/master/dist/fluidvids.js
      var head = document.head || document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
      var css = '.fluid-width-video-wrapper{width:100%;position:relative;padding:0;}.fluid-width-video-wrapper iframe,.fluid-width-video-wrapper object,.fluid-width-video-wrapper embed {position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;}';
      var div = document.createElement("div");
      div.innerHTML = '<p>x</p><style id="fit-vids-style">' + css + '</style>';
      head.appendChild(div.childNodes[1]);
    }

    if ( options ) {
      $.extend( settings, options );
    }

    return this.each(function(){
      var selectors = [
        'iframe[src*="player.vimeo.com"]',
        'iframe[src*="youtube.com"]',
        'iframe[src*="youtube-nocookie.com"]',
        'iframe[src*="kickstarter.com"][src*="video.html"]',
        'object',
        'embed'
      ];

      if (settings.customSelector) {
        selectors.push(settings.customSelector);
      }

      var ignoreList = '.fitvidsignore';

      if(settings.ignore) {
        ignoreList = ignoreList + ', ' + settings.ignore;
      }

      var $allVideos = $(this).find(selectors.join(','));
      $allVideos = $allVideos.not('object object'); // SwfObj conflict patch
      $allVideos = $allVideos.not(ignoreList); // Disable FitVids on this video.

      $allVideos.each(function(count){
        var $this = $(this);
        if($this.parents(ignoreList).length > 0) {
          return; // Disable FitVids on this video.
        }
        if (this.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'embed' && $this.parent('object').length || $this.parent('.fluid-width-video-wrapper').length) { return; }
        if ((!$this.css('height') && !$this.css('width')) && (isNaN($this.attr('height')) || isNaN($this.attr('width'))))
        {
          $this.attr('height', 9);
          $this.attr('width', 16);
        }
        var height = ( this.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'object' || ($this.attr('height') && !isNaN(parseInt($this.attr('height'), 10))) ) ? parseInt($this.attr('height'), 10) : $this.height(),
            width = !isNaN(parseInt($this.attr('width'), 10)) ? parseInt($this.attr('width'), 10) : $this.width(),
            aspectRatio = height / width;
        if(!$this.attr('id')){
          var videoID = 'fitvid' + count;
          $this.attr('id', videoID);
        }
        $this.wrap('<div class="fluid-width-video-wrapper"></div>').parent('.fluid-width-video-wrapper').css('padding-top', (aspectRatio * 100)+'%');
        $this.removeAttr('height').removeAttr('width');
      });
    });
  };
// Works with either jQuery or Zepto
})( window.jQuery || window.Zepto );

// Init style shamelessly stolen from jQuery https://jquery.com
var Froogaloop = (function(){
    // Define a local copy of Froogaloop
    function Froogaloop(iframe) {
        // The Froogaloop object is actually just the init constructor
        return new Froogaloop.fn.init(iframe);
    }

    var eventCallbacks = {},
        hasWindowEvent = false,
        isReady = false,
        slice = Array.prototype.slice,
        playerDomain = '';

    Froogaloop.fn = Froogaloop.prototype = {
        element: null,

        init: function(iframe) {
            if (typeof iframe === "string") {
                iframe = document.getElementById(iframe);
            }

            this.element = iframe;

            // Register message event listeners
            playerDomain = getDomainFromUrl(this.element.getAttribute('src'));

            return this;
        },

        /*
         * Calls a function to act upon the player.
         *
         * @param {string} method The name of the Javascript API method to call. Eg: 'play'.
         * @param {Array|Function} valueOrCallback params Array of parameters to pass when calling an API method
         *                                or callback function when the method returns a value.
         */
        api: function(method, valueOrCallback) {
            if (!this.element || !method) {
                return false;
            }

            var self = this,
                element = self.element,
                target_id = element.id !== '' ? element.id : null,
                params = !isFunction(valueOrCallback) ? valueOrCallback : null,
                callback = isFunction(valueOrCallback) ? valueOrCallback : null;

            // Store the callback for get functions
            if (callback) {
                storeCallback(method, callback, target_id);
            }

            postMessage(method, params, element);
            return self;
        },

        /*
         * Registers an event listener and a callback function that gets called when the event fires.
         *
         * @param eventName (String): Name of the event to listen for.
         * @param callback (Function): Function that should be called when the event fires.
         */
        addEvent: function(eventName, callback) {
            if (!this.element) {
                return false;
            }

            var self = this,
                element = self.element,
                target_id = element.id !== '' ? element.id : null;


            storeCallback(eventName, callback, target_id);

            // The ready event is not registered via postMessage. It fires regardless.
            if (eventName != 'ready') {
                postMessage('addEventListener', eventName, element);
            }
            else if (eventName == 'ready' && isReady) {
                callback.call(null, target_id);
            }

            return self;
        },

        /*
         * Unregisters an event listener that gets called when the event fires.
         *
         * @param eventName (String): Name of the event to stop listening for.
         */
        removeEvent: function(eventName) {
            if (!this.element) {
                return false;
            }

            var self = this,
                element = self.element,
                target_id = element.id !== '' ? element.id : null,
                removed = removeCallback(eventName, target_id);

            // The ready event is not registered
            if (eventName != 'ready' && removed) {
                postMessage('removeEventListener', eventName, element);
            }
        }
    };

    /**
     * Handles posting a message to the parent window.
     *
     * @param method (String): name of the method to call inside the player. For api calls
     * this is the name of the api method (api_play or api_pause) while for events this method
     * is api_addEventListener.
     * @param params (Object or Array): List of parameters to submit to the method. Can be either
     * a single param or an array list of parameters.
     * @param target (HTMLElement): Target iframe to post the message to.
     */
    function postMessage(method, params, target) {
        if (!target.contentWindow.postMessage) {
            return false;
        }

        var url = target.getAttribute('src').split('?')[0],
            data = JSON.stringify({
                method: method,
                value: params
            });

        if (url.substr(0, 2) === '//') {
            url = window.location.protocol + url;
        }

        target.contentWindow.postMessage(data, url);
    }

    /**
     * Event that fires whenever the window receives a message from its parent
     * via window.postMessage.
     */
    function onMessageReceived(event) {
        var data, method;

        try {
            data = JSON.parse(event.data);
            method = data.event || data.method;
        }
        catch(e)  {
            //fail silently... like a ninja!
        }

        if (method == 'ready' && !isReady) {
            isReady = true;
        }

        // Handles messages from moogaloop only
        if (event.origin != playerDomain) {
            return false;
        }

        var value = data.value,
            eventData = data.data,
            target_id = target_id === '' ? null : data.player_id,

            callback = getCallback(method, target_id),
            params = [];

        if (!callback) {
            return false;
        }

        if (value !== undefined) {
            params.push(value);
        }

        if (eventData) {
            params.push(eventData);
        }

        if (target_id) {
            params.push(target_id);
        }

        return params.length > 0 ? callback.apply(null, params) : callback.call();
    }


    /**
     * Stores submitted callbacks for each iframe being tracked and each
     * event for that iframe.
     *
     * @param eventName (String): Name of the event. Eg. api_onPlay
     * @param callback (Function): Function that should get executed when the
     * event is fired.
     * @param target_id (String) [Optional]: If handling more than one iframe then
     * it stores the different callbacks for different iframes based on the iframe's
     * id.
     */
    function storeCallback(eventName, callback, target_id) {
        if (target_id) {
            if (!eventCallbacks[target_id]) {
                eventCallbacks[target_id] = {};
            }
            eventCallbacks[target_id][eventName] = callback;
        }
        else {
            eventCallbacks[eventName] = callback;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Retrieves stored callbacks.
     */
    function getCallback(eventName, target_id) {
        if (target_id) {
            return eventCallbacks[target_id][eventName];
        }
        else {
            return eventCallbacks[eventName];
        }
    }

    function removeCallback(eventName, target_id) {
        if (target_id && eventCallbacks[target_id]) {
            if (!eventCallbacks[target_id][eventName]) {
                return false;
            }
            eventCallbacks[target_id][eventName] = null;
        }
        else {
            if (!eventCallbacks[eventName]) {
                return false;
            }
            eventCallbacks[eventName] = null;
        }

        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Returns a domain's root domain.
     * Eg. returns https://vimeo.com when https://vimeo.com/channels is sbumitted
     *
     * @param url (String): Url to test against.
     * @return url (String): Root domain of submitted url
     */
    function getDomainFromUrl(url) {
        if (url.substr(0, 2) === '//') {
            url = window.location.protocol + url;
        }

        var url_pieces = url.split('/'),
            domain_str = '';

        for(var i = 0, length = url_pieces.length; i < length; i++) {
            if(i<3) {domain_str += url_pieces[i];}
            else {break;}
            if(i<2) {domain_str += '/';}
        }

        return domain_str;
    }

    function isFunction(obj) {
        return !!(obj && obj.constructor && obj.call && obj.apply);
    }

    function isArray(obj) {
        return toString.call(obj) === '[object Array]';
    }

    // Give the init function the Froogaloop prototype for later instantiation
    Froogaloop.fn.init.prototype = Froogaloop.fn;

    // Listens for the message event.
    // W3C
    if (window.addEventListener) {
        window.addEventListener('message', onMessageReceived, false);
    }
    // IE
    else {
        window.attachEvent('onmessage', onMessageReceived);
    }

    // Expose froogaloop to the global object
    return (window.Froogaloop = window.$f = Froogaloop);

})();



////////////////////////////////////////
// Our Script 
////////////////////////////////////////
$(document).ready(function(){
  // Initiate FitVid.js
  $(".video-container").fitVids();

  // Iframe/player variables
  var iframe = $('#video')[0];
  var player = $f(iframe);

  // Open on play
  $('.play').click(function(){
    $('.overlay').css('left', 0)
    $('.overlay').addClass('show')
    player.api("play");
  })

  // Closes on click outside
  $('.overlay').click(function(){
    $('.overlay').removeClass('show')
    setTimeout(function() {
      $('.overlay').css('left', '-100%')
    }, 300);
    player.api("pause");
  })
});



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