How to center and crop an image to always appear in square shape with CSS?

Question

I need to always crop a random-sized image to a square 160x160 using only CSS. The images should stay centered when cropped.

My markup should be:

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Answer 1

    







div {
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
    overflow: hidden;
    margin: 10px;
    position: relative;
}
.crop {
    position: absolute;
    left: -100%;
    right: -100%;
    top: -100%;
    bottom: -100%;
    margin: auto; 
    height: auto;
    width: auto;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/J7a5R/56/