Scale image to fit a bounding box

Question

Is there a css-only solution to scale an image into a bounding box (keeping aspect-ratio)? This works if the image is bigger than the container:

img {
  max-         


        

Answer 1

You can accomplish this with pure CSS and complete browser support, both for vertically-long and horizontally-long images at the same time.

Here's a snippet which works in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari (both using object-fit: scale-down, and without using it):

figure {
  margin: 0;
}

.container {
  display: table-cell;
  vertical-align: middle;
  width: 80px;
  height: 80px;
  border: 1px solid #aaa;
}

.container_image {
  display: block;
  max-width: 100%;
  max-height: 100%;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
}

.container2_image2 {
  width: 80px;
  height: 80px;
  object-fit: scale-down;
  border: 1px solid #aaa;
}

Without `object-fit: scale-down`:







  






  



 Using `object-fit: scale-down`: