I am using the responsive image technique, which is to set max-width to 100% to resize my images according to the screen resolution/size. However, when I put the image inside a div that has a percentage width, the images do not appear crisp (since I surmise, it has been resized via browser). The text on the image is quite blurred. Is there a way to make it look crisp? Or at least to make it look crisp on the most common screen size?
CSS:
img {
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
.img-container {
width: 57%;
}
HTML:
<div class="img-container">
<img src="[img source]" width="700" height="500" />
</div>
If you've got a large image that's being scaled down, resize it in a vector graphics program first, then save it as the preferred size, and serve that to the client.
If you've got a small image that's being scaled up, you're going to lose resolution, no option.
This isn't really a CSS/HTML problem, just FYI, it's a scaling problem. Various browsers will use various scaling algorithms, so the results will not be consistent. You've got to grab the controls and force the browsers to show the image you want, without scaling. One of the practical drawbacks to the theoretical beauty of "responsive design".
Use SVG if you have non-photographic images
Use slimmage.js for photographs.
Manually exporting 14 image versions to support the 2013 range of resolutions is madness.
use SVG images or use a plugin called picturefill.
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Is there any way I can resize my image or any setting that can be done in my template coding so that the slider images are not blurry anymore?
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One of the simplest ways to resize an image in the HTML is using the height and width attributes on the img tag. These values specify the height and width of the image element.
Resizing img with HTML
<img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/ikmedia/women-dress-2.jpg"
width="400"
height="500" />
Resizing img with CSS
img { width: 400px, height: 300px}
From what I've seen, you're using very small raster images.
notice the 'intrinsic size' property
same goes here
Photographs are always saved as raster images. It means that the data of an image is stored in the form of a pixel map - a matrix of squares. If you try to scale the image up, every pixel is also scaled up. Therefore, you lose quality, and the pictures seem pixelated/blurry.
There's no way to keep both the size and detail. Alternatively, you could try to keep the initial size of an image (or at least scale down) - this would, on the other hand, not fill the entire container space.
now check the intrinsic size of one of the images on the demo page
The more scaled image is, the more blurry it gets. The pictures on the demo page have the scale aspect of 2. However, your photo that is 72 x 72px has been scaled up a lot more.
If those photos have been taken by you in higher quality, you might want to use the raw version.
I have a web slider with an image in it. I've asked my designers for an image of the highest possible dimensions that I'd like to support (1920x1080 browser window).
This looks great at the highest resolution, but as the browser window gets smaller and smaller the image doesn't scale appropriately. I'm not sure what techniques I should be performing to make sure an image like the one in the example above is scaled down appropriately as the window size changes.
Should I ask for various resolutions of the same image from our designer? And swap out the image using media queries in css? Or is there some other way to properly do this in CSS using background image size, etc?
Edit:
So the image was created with text and graphics. The problem may be that there's no way to support this on various device sizes. How do other people/companies handle images with text/graphics as part of the image, and not over on top of it?
Try Applying max-height:100% & max-width:100% to the element you wish to remain scaled.
I.E
<div class ="wrapper">
<div class ="image">
</div>
</div>
CSS
.image{
max-height:100%
max-width:100%
}
What is the best way to get a smaller version of an image I want to use onto a webpage, but still allow the person to view the full image if they click "view image"? This question could really be broken down into two parts:
Say my image is 900x900px: Is there a way I can display that image at a much smaller size, like 100x100px (so that the browser does not have to load the entire 900px image) but allow the person to see full size image if they click "view image"?
Additionally, what is the best way to take the 900px image, and display it at only 100px? Assuming I can't do this ahead of time with photo editing software, should I use the height and width tags in HTML or in CSS? (It seems like they both resize the image (scale) rather than crop). Thanks
With the usual approach to use the heightand width attributes, the whole image still has to be transferred to the browser.
So if you add a link somewhere (the image itself could be the link), the user is still able to access the complete (900 x 900 px) image.
Regarding image cropping: There is some trickery you can use as outlined in this SO answer.
JsFiddle Demo 1 (the image itself is used as a link to the original full-sized image)
JsFiddle Demo 2 (using the first demo as a base, but this time cropped the image)
Easiest way is to use it as a background to a div and then use the background-sizeattribute. An example would be what I did with my website.
<div id="image"
style="background-image:url(images/Greensburg-Commons-Oblique2.jpg);
background-position:20% 20%;
background-size:600px 800px;">
</div>
Using this method, I was able to take a 3200x2400 photo and scale it down to 800x600 photo. Plus, In my opinion, it's a lot easier to style a div with a background photo than just a plain image and I feel it just does more. Just so you know, background-position changes what part of the scaled in photo you show :)
<div id="image"
style="background-image:url(images/Greensburg-Commons-Oblique2.jpg);
background-size:100% 100%;">
</div>
Also, you could change the background size to 100% by 100% and that way the background will display the full image all the time and will automatically scale down as your window size changes or screen size :). Best for fluid layouts.
well you can set the image as a background of a div and then set the background-size property
#yourDiv{
width:100 px;
height:100 px;
background:url('path/to/your/image');
background-size: 100px 100px;
}
you could set different properties for :hover but you'd need to use javascript to change the properties onclick
You can use a lightbox or with just CSS, but it will resize the page. Now this is a very simple example so don't expect a beautiful display.
HTML
<img src="img.png" class="resize">
CSS
.resize {
width:100px;
height:100px;
}
.resize:hover {
height:900px;
width:900px;
}
Now personally I would use a javascript or just a lightbox. It will look much better right out of the box with minimal adjustments. Just my 2 cents.
We need to create HTML5 banner, which would not have fix size but would be scalable and fit 100% of screen by width and by height. Banner is rather simple, but it should look good as on 320x480 as on 1024x768.
Is it possible?
If using an SVG image is acceptable, I would create one that looks good at both extremes of the scale (make sure it remains readable in low resolution), then put it into a <div class="span12"> element using a responsive layout with something like Twitter Bootstrap. Your banner will scale nicely as the size of the screen is being changed by the user.
If you can't use SVG, then use JPEG or PNG, design the banner in the highest resolution, and make sure that it remains readable when using the lowest resolution you want to support.
If you want to be really fancy, you could skip the image altogether and design your banner as a bunch of HTML5 code, with CSS and possibly JavaScript code that would display different content depending on the size of the screen, but that could be quite a bit of work and it might not be worth the effort.
You can make full screen banner section with 100% full screen with width 100%: and height:100%; , here have tips and live link
#bannersection {
position: relative;
display: table;
width: 100%;
background: rgba(99,214,250,1);
height: 100vh;
}
https://www.htmllion.com/fullscreen-header-banner-section.html
I want to display a collection of image thumbnails in a grid. The images will come in a variety of sizes, but I'd like to restrict the thumbnails to a particular size (let's say 200px wide and 150px tall).
What I'd like to find are some magical HTML markup and CSS rules that will
Allow the images to be included in normal <img> elements
Ensure that the thumbnails fit into their 200x150 pixel box, retain their proportions, and are centered in whichever dimension they overflow.
Not require JavaScript or specific knowledge of each image's actual dimensions
I'm not sure if this is possible. I can make a (bad) approximation of what I want with the following markup:
<div class="thumb">
<img src="360x450.jpeg">
</div>
and CSS:
.thumb {
width: 200px;
height: 150px;
overflow: hidden;
}
.thumb img {
min-width: 200px;
min-height: 150px;
width: 200px;
}
This attempt breaks in a variety of ways:
Images that are in portrait orientation will be sized correctly, but will overflow through the bottom of the container, resulting in vertically-off-center cropping.
Images that are wide and short will be distorted in the horizontal dimension because of the hard-coded width and min-height rules.
But without that hard-coded width, images that are larger than the minimum height and width will not be resized at all.
If it's at all helpful, I've put up an example that will (hopefully) illustrate what I'm trying to do, here:
http://overloaded.org/tmp/imgtest/
http://overloaded.org/tmp/imgtest/imgtest.zip
I know that I can solve this problem by omitting the <img> element altogether and instead pulling the thumbnails in as a centered background image on the containing element, but, if it's possible, I'd like to keep the <img> elements in the page.
Thanks for any help or pointers you can provide!
Edit: I suppose I should note that an ideal solution will work in IE 6+ and modern browsers, but any solution that works in IE 9+ and other modern browsers (recent WebKit, Gecko, etc.) will be gladly accepted.
You can (kind of) achieve this with the CSS3 background-size additions: contain and cover.
Live Demo
contain (top picture) fits the entire image, keeping aspect ratio. Nothing is cropped.
cover (bottom picture) fills the containing element either vertically or horizontally (depending on the image) and crops the rest.
Possible, probably.
Also, probably not the best idea. Your big issue to overcome here is orientation of thumbnails. What if you're dealing with a panorama? Certainly, shrinking it down is going to create a very unsightly "squished" image, as would a very tall image. It's rare that everyone deals in 4X3 or 16X9 100% of the time. So, you'll need a mechanism to pad out the image. Even if the ratio is correct, it's not going to resize as cleanly as you could with a program like Photoshop or Gimp.
The other major issue in this thought process is that you're going to be sending massive amounts of unnecessary data to the server via the larger images. It'll take longer to load, fill up the DOM unnecessarily, and overall just inhibit the UI experience.
There are a number of ways to get around this, none of them pure CSS. I've tackled this several times, each in a unique way based on the client. For one client that wanted things totally custom, it was a custom uploader, resizing via iMagick (part of image magic) and custom CSS/Javascript for the album with major interactivity. In another instance, I use Gallery as the backend--handling the thumbnail creation, uploading, titling, cropping, and organizing-- and then just pulled the reformatted image links out of the DB to display them in a more appealing manner. You could save yourself even more trouble and just use something like the Flickr api to pull images for your use.
Here's a tut on using ImageMagick to do thumbnails.
.thumb img {
max-width: 200px;
max-height: 150px;
min-width: 200px;
min-height: 150px;
}
Well I know for thumbs you would want it max and min if you want a smaller image to make it bigger and bigger image to make it smaller.
try to set max-width and height and not min because if the image is not exactly that size it will overflow :)