Is it possible to make an element behave/sized like the background-size:contain? For reference, here's a page demonstrating background-size:contain (try resizing your browser window and see what the background image does).
That is, I want to make an element with constrained aspect ratio, with width and height such that either width or height will be 100% of the window width (and the other will be whatever is necessary to preserve ratio and keep the entire element visible in the window without scrollbars)?
For example, suppose I want an element to have a ratio of 16:9. If someone's browser window is super wide and not very tall, then I want my element's height to be 100% and the width would be less (whatever is necessary to keep the element's ratio 16:9). If someone's browser window is really tall and not very wide, then the width would be be 100% and the height would be less (again, whatever is necessary to preserve that element's target ratio).
I'm thinking the only way to do this is with javascript. Is there some magical CSS way to accomplish this that I don't know about?
I guess you want to have a liquid template view.
Checkout this example if it suits your need
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/liquid/liquid-sample1/
Thanks.
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Is there any difference between declaring both width and max-width and declaring only one?
As I have understood, using only the max-width property causes all of an element's content to be fit dynamically when the viewport is resized.
Consider the following pen, feel free to resize the window to see what happens:https://codepen.io/harrison-rood/pen/KKzPQMW
The first example is an image with an explicit width of 800px.
The second is an image with a max-width of 800px, but a width of 100%.
See how one is responsive and the other is not? In the first example, we're telling the image it needs to be exactly 800px. In the second example, we're saying that the image should be a fluid 100%, but not any bigger than 800px, no matter what.
You can also use this idea in reverse. The third example has an image with a width of auto (as big as possible) but a max width of 100%, meaning that it will be as big as its container, but not overflow out of it.
The fourth example shows what would happen without max width. See how the image stretches way past its container because it is much larger?
Hope this clears things up! If it does, be sure to leave an upvote!
This is because screen resolutions can be different sizes. Lets say you have an element with a width of 15%, if you increase your window width, 15% becomes larger in pixels. You can set a max-width from preventing it from going over a certain width in pixels.
Using max-width, as the name implies, means that, when a container contains more content than it can fit, its width won't exceed the specified max-width.
max-width is specifically used to prevent a container's width from increasing when it contains more content than it can fit—instead, when max-width is specified, the content will overflow out of the container.
I'm validating my HTML 5 pages and I get a lot of errors because I specified the width and height of my images in percentage. I though that this was the best way because if I specify it in pixels it won't resize when the site is viewed on a smaller device.
What's the correct way to specify the width and height of an image in HTML?
Thanks
If the original image is the aspect ratio that you want then just specify the with % and the height will change automatically. Make sure that the height of the parent div does not have a specified height as that may cause some problems. Also positioning of the rest of the page should be relative.
I need to preserve the aspect ratio of a div when the browser window is resized.
I have done a good bit of searching on this, and it is possible to use padding to preserve the aspect ratio of a div by making its height relative to its width, whenever the width of the screen is altered.
The technique is shown here on Stack Overflow, and in particular, this linked to example shows the technique in action.
But I need to do the opposite. Rather than making the height relative to the width of the div, I need the width of the div to change whenever the height of the browser window is altered. I need to do this because I have a background image that I want the content to flow relative to, and that background image has a 100% height, and its aspect ratio is preserved.
I have tried using linked method, but swapping horizontal for vertical attributes. It isn't working. I have no idea why. Perhaps someone can show how to do this.
I need the width of the div to change whenever the height of the browser window is altered.
For a pure CSS solution to that, you will have to wait for a broader implementation of either calc() or the vh unit.
I don't know if this is possible in pure CSS, but there is a possible way with jQuery, see this discussion
Maybe something like mmoustafa suggested:
$(window).resize(function() {
$('#my-div').css('width', window.innerHeight*0.4+'px');
$('#my-div').css('height', window.innerHeight*0.2+'px');
});
I'm trying to make a horizontal layout (with columns) where the content scales based on the browser window height.
I came across answers about perfect ratio based on width, but I want to have an infinite width (as the amount of content won't always be the same).
Is this possible just using HTML/CSS?
It is going to be hard to maintain the aspect ratio with css, but if you set the height of the maincontent box to 90% and the height of the containers to 100%. They should respond to
the browser window. But only in height, never in width.
From there you can use javascript to set the with to be <height> * 1.5 (or similar) you will have to do this in the document ready event, but also in the window resize event.
If I have an image combined with a style:
<img class="test" src="testimage.jpg" />
img.test { width: 50%;}
The image resizes to 50% the width of the box containing it, as well as resizing vertically, maintaining the aspect ratio.
This seems to require the enclosing DIV to be set to a particular width and height value. But if you want the enclosing DIV to resize automatically as the browser is dragged smaller or larger, wouldn't this be a problem?
I've clarified my answer to your original question. Go take a look and see if it clears things up. More or less, if you want the image to resize with the window you can't set the DIV to a fixed width and height. The DIV must have a % width and height also.
You'll need to manually specify the width and height properties to get the image to keep its dimensions. This wouldn't be too difficult if you're using server-side coding (PHP/ASP).
Another way to do it would be to use JavaScript to calculate and resize the image dynamically.
No, the image will still be 50% of the div, and if the div is a proportion of the page, that doesn't matter.
Its all proportions: The enclosing div might be 2/3 of the whole window, and the image will wil 1/2 of that. It all gets calculated before its displayed, just a bunch of number crunching. ;D