diff --git a/src/static/css/pad.css b/src/static/css/pad.css
index 9e529a692ff..e2bc4c89e68 100644
--- a/src/static/css/pad.css
+++ b/src/static/css/pad.css
@@ -139,16 +139,22 @@ input {
 .history-banner-date    { opacity: 0.85; }
 .history-banner #history-banner-return { margin-left: auto; }
 
-/* The history iframe takes the place of the live ACE editor. We use the    */
-/* same positioning model (absolute, fill the editor area) so the page      */
-/* layout is identical between modes.                                       */
+/* The history iframe takes the place of the live ACE editor by occupying the
+ * same in-flow flex slot that #editorcontainer fills in live mode (flex: 1 1
+ * auto inside the row-flex #editorcontainerbox). This keeps the layout
+ * identical between modes — crucially including any in-flow side panels in
+ * #editorcontainerbox, such as ep_webrtc's video column, which now sit beside
+ * the history iframe exactly as they sit beside the live editor.
+ *
+ * This used to be an absolute, inset:0 overlay: it filled the editor area but
+ * took the iframe out of flow, so an in-flow side panel ended up hidden
+ * beneath it (see ether/ep_webrtc rendering nothing in the timeslider). */
 .history-frame-mount {
   display: none;
-  position: absolute;
-  inset: 0;
+  flex: 1 1 auto;
+  min-width: 0; /* allow the iframe to shrink to make room for a side panel */
   border: 0;
   background: var(--bg-color, #f2f3f4);
-  z-index: 4;
 }
 .history-frame-mount[hidden] { display: none; }
 .history-frame-mount > iframe {
@@ -164,8 +170,14 @@ input {
 /* editor, so we swap it for the history controls (slider + play/step      */
 /* buttons) that drive the iframe. The right-side menu (Settings / Share / */
 /* Users / Chat / Home) stays fully interactive across modes.              */
-body.history-mode #editorcontainer { display: none; }
-body.history-mode #editorcontainerbox { position: relative; }
+/* The two-id `#editorcontainerbox #editorcontainer { display: flex }` layout
+ * rule (specificity 0-2-0) outranks a plain `body.history-mode #editorcontainer`
+ * (0-1-1), so match the same container path here to actually win the cascade
+ * and remove the live editor from flow. This was latent before: the old
+ * absolute, inset:0 iframe overlay painted over the still-in-flow editor, so
+ * nobody noticed it wasn't hidden. Now that the iframe sits in the normal
+ * flex flow, the editor must genuinely be gone or the two would split the row. */
+body.history-mode #editorcontainerbox #editorcontainer { display: none; }
 body.history-mode .history-frame-mount { display: block; }
 body.history-mode #editbar .menu_left { display: none; }
 body.history-mode #editbar .show-more-icon-btn { display: none; }
diff --git a/src/tests/frontend-new/specs/padmode.spec.ts b/src/tests/frontend-new/specs/padmode.spec.ts
index b8e2451d8b8..d75a80e12a4 100644
--- a/src/tests/frontend-new/specs/padmode.spec.ts
+++ b/src/tests/frontend-new/specs/padmode.spec.ts
@@ -345,4 +345,55 @@ test.describe('in-pad history mode', () => {
     await expect(page.locator('body.history-mode')).toHaveCount(0);
     await expect(tbl.locator('.history-authors-row')).toHaveCount(0);
   });
+
+  test('history iframe occupies the editor flex slot so side panels sit beside it', async ({page}) => {
+    await goToNewPad(page);
+    await clearPadContent(page);
+    await writeToPad(page, 'one');
+    await page.waitForTimeout(300);
+    await writeToPad(page, ' two');
+    await page.waitForTimeout(500);
+
+    // Simulate a plugin side panel mounted in #editorcontainerbox (e.g.
+    // ep_webrtc's #rtcbox video column): an in-flow flex item pinned left.
+    await page.evaluate(() => {
+      const box = document.getElementById('editorcontainerbox')!;
+      const panel = document.createElement('div');
+      panel.id = 'test-side-panel';
+      panel.style.cssText = 'display:flex;order:-1;flex:0 1 auto;width:120px';
+      panel.innerHTML = '<div style="width:120px;height:120px"></div>';
+      box.appendChild(panel);
+    });
+    const editorRight = await page.locator('#editorcontainer').evaluate(
+        (el) => Math.round(el.getBoundingClientRect().right));
+
+    await page.locator('.buttonicon-history').click();
+    await expect(page.locator('body.history-mode')).toBeVisible();
+    await page.locator('#history-frame-mount iframe').waitFor({state: 'attached'});
+
+    // 1) The live editor is genuinely removed from flow — not merely painted
+    //    over. The two-id `#editorcontainerbox #editorcontainer { display:flex }`
+    //    layout rule outranks a plain `body.history-mode #editorcontainer`, so
+    //    the hide rule must match the same container path to win the cascade.
+    expect(await page.locator('#editorcontainer').evaluate(
+        (el) => getComputedStyle(el).display)).toBe('none');
+
+    // 2) The history iframe is in normal flow (not an absolute overlay)...
+    expect(await page.locator('#history-frame-mount').evaluate(
+        (el) => getComputedStyle(el).position)).not.toBe('absolute');
+
+    // 3) ...so it lays out beside the side panel instead of on top of it, and
+    //    still fills the rest of the editor's old width.
+    const r = (sel: string) => page.locator(sel).evaluate((el) => {
+      const b = el.getBoundingClientRect();
+      return {left: b.left, right: b.right, top: b.top, bottom: b.bottom};
+    });
+    const panel = await r('#test-side-panel');
+    const frame = await r('#history-frame-mount');
+    const overlaps = !(frame.right <= panel.left || panel.right <= frame.left ||
+                       frame.bottom <= panel.top || panel.bottom <= frame.top);
+    expect(overlaps).toBe(false);
+    expect(Math.round(frame.left)).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(Math.round(panel.right) - 2);
+    expect(Math.round(frame.right)).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(editorRight - 3);
+  });
 });