diff --git a/doc/global/macros.qdocconf b/doc/global/macros.qdocconf
index 246f0c438e0..93d57493540 100644
--- a/doc/global/macros.qdocconf
+++ b/doc/global/macros.qdocconf
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ macro.QtMinorVersion.match  = "\\d+\\.(\\d+)"
 # HTML.extraimages           += images/dQw4w9WgXcQ.jpg
 # qhp.ProjectName.extraFiles += images/dQw4w9WgXcQ.jpg
 #
-macro.youtube.HTML = "<div class=\"video\">\n<span class=\"vspan\"></span>\n" \
+macro.youtube.HTML = "<div class=\"video\">\n" \
                      "<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=\1\">\n"\
                      "<img src=\"images/\1.jpg\"" \
                      "title=\"Click to play in a browser\" /></a>\n" \
diff --git a/doc/global/template/style/offline.css b/doc/global/template/style/offline.css
index 13c2283a813..acfae7eb103 100644
--- a/doc/global/template/style/offline.css
+++ b/doc/global/template/style/offline.css
@@ -806,10 +806,6 @@ div.multi-column div {
   display:table
 }
 
-.mainContent .video > .vspan {
-  padding-top:60%;
-  display:block
-}
 .mainContent .video iframe {
   width:100%;
   height:100%;