I have been trying for a couple of days now to configure my thumbnail gallery so all the images appear the same height and width. However when I change the Css code to,
You need to fix one side ( eg height ) and set the other to auto
.
Eg
height: 120px;
width: auto;
That would scale the image based on one side only. If you find cropping the image acceptable, you can just set
overflow: hidden;
to the parent element, which would crop out anything that would otherwise exceed its size.
If you don't want to stretch the image, fit it into div container without overflow and center it by adjusting it's margin if needed.
<div id="app">
<div id="container">
<img src="#" alt="something">
</div>
<div id="container">
<img src="#" alt="something">
</div>
<div id="container">
<img src="#" alt="something">
</div>
</div>
div#container {
height: 200px;
width: 200px;
border: 1px solid black;
margin: 4px;
}
img {
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
To make images adjustable/flexible you could use this:
/* fit images to container */
.container img {
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
Put it as a background on your holder e.g.
<div style="background:url(path/to/image/myimage.jpg) center center; width:120px; height:120px;">
</div>
This will center your image inside a 120x120 div chopping off any excess of the image
You can use object-fit
css3 property, something like
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset='utf-8'>
<style>
.holder {
display: inline;
}
.holder img {
max-height: 200px;
max-width: 200px;
object-fit: cover;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class='holder'>
<img src='meld.png'>
</div>
<div class='holder'>
<img src='twiddla.png'>
</div>
<div class='holder'>
<img src='meld.png'>
</div>
</body>
</html>
It is not exactly your answer, though, because of it doesn't stretch the container, but it behaves like the gallery and you can keep styling the img
itself.
Another drawback of this solution is still a poor support of the css3 property. More details are available here: http://www.steveworkman.com/html5-2/javascript/2012/css3-object-fit-polyfill/. jQuery solution can be found there as well.
this is a known problem with CSS resizing, unless all images have the same proportion, you have no way to do this via CSS.
The best approach would be to have a container, and resize one of the dimensions (always the same) of the images. In my example I resized the width.
If the container has a specified dimension (in my example the width), when telling the image to have the width at 100%, it will make it the full width of the container. The auto
at the height will make the image have the height proportional to the new width.
Ex:
HTML:
<div class="container">
<img src="something.png" />
</div>
<div class="container">
<img src="something2.png" />
</div>
CSS:
.container {
width: 200px;
height: 120px;
}
/* resize images */
.container img {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
}