Offset viewable image in

Question

Using plain tags is it possible to offset the image in the same way as you can with CSS background-image and background-position?

There are main images o

Answer 1

Some of the images are portrait and some are landscape, however I need to display the thumbnails at a uniform size (and crop off the excess where it fails to meet the desired aspect ratio).

Use background-size: cover which should exactly solve that problem → with good browser support!

And make you image the background (probably using background-image as an inline style):