Make image fill div completely without stretching

Question

I have large images of varying dimensions that need to completely fill 240px by 300px containers in both dimensions. Here is what I got right now, which only works for one d

Answer 1

We went down the path with an Angular app of using a variation on the jQuery approach above. Then one of our bright colleagues came up with a pure CSS approach. See this example here: https://jsfiddle.net/jeffturner/yrrncees/1/.

Basically using line-height solved the problem for us. For those not wanting to hit the fiddle, the code fragments are:

.container {
    margin: 10px;
    width: 125px;
    height: 125px;
    line-height: 115px;
    text-align: center;
    border: 1px solid red;
}
.resize_fit_center {
    max-width:100%;
    max-height:100%;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

The key is in using line-height and setting the container to do the same.