I need the image to take the entire width of the container unless the resulting height is bigger then the available container's viewport height.
Basically I want the image to be responsive but also that it should still fit the screen. If it doesn't fit the screen it should be scaled down, horizontally centered, and preferably added with black tiles on its sides.
Currently, my CSS class looks like this:
.img-responsive{
display: block;
max-width: 100%;
min-width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
I've tried to play around with max-height on the image, or on a dedicated container, nothing seemed to do the trick by pure CSS.
Clarifications:
I don't know the images dimensions in advance so can't just put them in a container with a preset size.
Basically, my goal is for the images to be always fully visible on the screen (if you scroll to the image) and take up the largest possible surface.
Here's a more detailed example:
Let's say I have scrollable container with a lot of content. The container takes up the entire viewport width (let's say its 500px) and the available visible height of the container is the entire viewport height minus a navbar height (let's say 1000px).
I can't know in advance what's the container's visible dimensions as it can always change.
Inside the container there's whatever, text, images, etc.
Now, for a given image, here are possible scenarios:
If the image is 500x800, it should be presented as is, as it takes up the entire available width, and height is no bigger then the container's visible height.
If the image is 500x2000, it should be scaled down to 250x1000
and horizontally centered. This will take up the entire visible container's height, and keep the image's aspect ratio
If the image is 250x300, it should be scaled up to 500x600, taking up the entire available width
If the image is 200x500, it should be scaled up to 400x1000, taking up the entire available height
If the image is 1000x1000, it should be scaled down to 500x500, taking up the entire available width
Here's a JSFiddle explaining the problem
I would advise against using the IMG tag for this. Rather use a div tag and then use background image properties. Here is the code for this, set the container size to whatever you like:
<div id="container"></div>
<style>
width: 500px;
height: 500px;
background-image: url('your url');
background-size: contain;
</style>
background-size: contain is what is best for this. It scales the image to the largest the image can be within the div without making it larger than its native size. Hope this helps
EDIT:
Forgot to add that if you want it to be in the center of the container, so that when the image doesnt fit the full size of the container there is the white space around it, you use the css code background-position: center center;
Mostly what you need is to give img elements two properties {max-width:100%} and {height: auto}
If you open the snippet below in full screen and resize your window (Note: image sizes are randomly chosen)
you will see how nice they play. They adhere to the max width and they don't overstretch themselves in any direction.
I added some code in there just to make this easier to show
like making giving images {display:block} and {padding-bottom}
body {
background: #131418;
text-align: center;
color: white;
font-size: 25px;
}
body,
.image-container,
.image-container img,
.smalldiv {
max-width: 100%;
}
.image-container img {
height: auto;
display: block;
padding-bottom: 1em;
}
.smalldiv {
/*for demnostration only */
width: 600px;
background: darkblue;
}
.smalldiv,
.image-container img {
margin: 0 auto;
}
<h3>Images will always keep their aspect ratio and they will always adhere to the width of their parent containers.</h3>
<hr>
<div class="image-container">
<h4>This is what the image container looks like when it has the entire screen space</h4>
<img src="http://placehold.it/350x150">
<img src="http://placehold.it/650x150">
<img src="http://placehold.it/950x150">
<img src="http://placehold.it/1250x3150">
<img src="http://placehold.it/350x150">
<img src="http://placehold.it/450x350">
<img src="http://placehold.it/550x650">
<img src="http://placehold.it/650x950">
<img src="http://placehold.it/1250x1150">
</div>
<div class="smalldiv">
<div class="image-container">
<h4>This is what the image containing div looks when it's put inside a container smaller then the screen width</h4>
<img src="http://placehold.it/350x150">
<img src="http://placehold.it/650x150">
<img src="http://placehold.it/950x150">
<img src="http://placehold.it/1250x3150">
<img src="http://placehold.it/350x150">
<img src="http://placehold.it/450x350">
<img src="http://placehold.it/550x650">
<img src="http://placehold.it/650x950">
<img src="http://placehold.it/1250x1150">
</div>
</div>
evilgenious448 answer comes really close, just that it only works with background images. What I have is:
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {
margin: 0px;
}
.holder {
background-image: url('image1.JPG');
background-size: contain;
background-position: center center;
width: 100vw;
height: 100vh;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="holder">
<div class="inner">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I do not know how to size the inner div equally to the image.
Here is an example with code and everything:
You can drag around the page to test.
--- When the viewport is higher / taller than the image, the image's width is the width of the viewport disregarding viewport height. On the other hand, when the viewport is wider than the image, the image uses the viewports height, disregarding its with.
#image {
background-image: url(https://media.cntraveller.com/photos/611bedcd231ed5e8dfa34573/16:9/w_2580,c_limit/sennen-cove-beach-britain-conde-nast-traveller-20april18-rex.jpg);
background-size: contain;
background-position: center center;
width: 100vw;
height: 100vh;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
<body id="body">
<div id="image" />
</body>
You can use height: 100% of the parent container (in my case its img-holder). And apply text-align: center to the parent. Like:
.img-holder {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
border: 1px solid #555;
text-align: center;
}
.img-holder img {
height: 100%;
}
Have al look at the snippet below:
.img-holder {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
border: 1px solid #555;
text-align: center;
}
img {
height: 100%;
}
<div class="img-holder">
<img src="http://placehold.it/100x200" alt="">
</div>
Hope this helps!
The best and the easiest way is to use vh and vw properties. vh when set to 100 takes up the complete Viewport Height and same goes with vw for width. Further, max height property may be added to stop image from stretching beyond its original dimensions.
I load images dynamically into my webpage and make them responsive:
<div id="images"><img id="dynamic_img" src=""/></div>
css:
#images{
height: 80%;
width: 30%
}
img{
max-height: auto
max-width:100%
}
Problem now is, that the images have different heights and widths. Now this works when the width of an image is longer than its height but not the other way around. (in this case max-height would be 100% and max-width: auto
Is this possible to switch these two values according to the image loaded in CSS or do I need to use JS for that?
Thanks in advance
Here you have an example where images are fitted horizontal and vertically.
I used
img {
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
}
Here you are: https://jsfiddle.net/jormaechea/j219ucnc/1/
Update
The key to achieve this is to set
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
<div id="images"><img class="img" src="" alt="" /></div>
.img
{
width=100%;
}
your div should have width=100% for example.
don't use max-width
you can set the #images div also a with of 80% - it will be responsive and the image refits to the divs width
This may come off as basic, but I'm new to img tags. On this website morningsignout.com, I want to resize the images so that they're smaller. I learned about editing their img tag properties in firebug with "height="40%"", but it doesn't seem to work on any of the article's main images. How do I resize them in html?
I'm presuming that you want to resize the image according to the height of the view window. To do that, you can use the vh unit in css. 100 vh units is the height of the screen that the user is viewing the page on.
Here's an example that sets all the imgs to 40% of the viewport height
img {
height: 40vh;
}
Height with percents it's a little bit tricky because the parent must have height too. You have 2 options: Set the parent's height too. B. Set the height by pixels.
.first {
height: 450px;
}
.first img {
height:50%;
}
.second img {
height:200px;
}
<div class="first">
<img src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/33oYG.jpg" />
</div>
<div class="second">
<img src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/33oYG.jpg" />
</div>
my problem is quite simple but I still cannot find the answer for this one...
Say we have two containers containing an Image.
<div id="containera">
<div id="containerb">
<img id="imagea" src="image.jpg"/>
</div></div>
and we have something like
#containera { width: 50%; height: 50%; background-color:blue;}
#containerb { width: 80%; height: 80%; background-color:red;}
#imagea { height:100%; width:auto;}
Problem is: The Image height is FULL SCREEN height and NOT 100% containerb (80% of 50% screenheight).
I want the Image to be 100% height of containerb, not 100% height of the screen.
Weird: If i work with "width", the width is scaled depending on the width of containerb.
Can I somehow restrict the height of the containers so they dont scale the image to 100% screenheight? tried max-height in tons of variations but it did not work in any way...
Thanks, if you have any idea how i could solve this..
Add html, body {width:100%; height:100%;}
see working fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/A9b6Y/
ie changing as one resizes the browswer.
I'm trying to have a logo in the center of the top of my website grow or shrink as the window resizes
yes it's possible if the parent of the image relies on the width of the browser. You can make the width of the image into percentages.
http://jsfiddle.net/SGmRQ/
html:
<div>
<img src="http://www.digitaleconomics.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/see-how-your-google-results-measure-up-with-google-grader-video-6b8bbb4b41.jpg" />
</div>
css:
div {
width: 100%;
}
img {
width: 50%;
}