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Learn more about Labs Stretch an image to fill width of browser window Ask Question Asked 12 years, 9 months ago Modified 2 years, 10 months ago Viewed 77k times 20

I have an image, and I want the width to fill up the browser window, no matter the size of the window.

How do I do this in HTML and CSS?

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Share Improve this question Follow edited May 15, 2015 at 13:06 Eric Leschinski 154k9696 gold badges421421 silver badges335335 bronze badges asked Mar 16, 2012 at 2:50 BilljkBilljk 10.7k2323 gold badges5555 silver badges7373 bronze badges 1

• possible duplicate of CSS or jQuery scalable background image with NO white space underneath when img height is less than window height – Joseph Commented Mar 16, 2012 at 2:54

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You can add a div with width an height of 100%, also set image's width and height are 100%

<div id="wrapper"> <img src="https://picsum.photos/200/200"> </div>​​​​​​​​​​

CSS:

#wrapper, img{ width:100%; height: 100%; }

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Share Improve this answer Follow edited Feb 19, 2022 at 20:38 answered Mar 16, 2012 at 2:57 sbagdatsbagdat 8501111 silver badges2525 bronze badges Add a comment | 8 <img src="filename.jpg" alt="alt text" width="100%" />

This assumes that the image's container is as wide as the browser window.

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Mar 16, 2012 at 2:53 Brian WillisBrian Willis 23.8k99 gold badges4848 silver badges5050 bronze badges 4

• 1 this is not valid for HTML 5. In HTML5, value must be in pixels. – sbagdat Commented Mar 16, 2012 at 3:03
• @sbagdat Interesting. I didn't know that. Any idea why percent was removed as an option? – Brian Willis Commented Mar 16, 2012 at 3:06
• probably when images are getting bigger, they are losing quality. here is the w3c link: w3schools.com/html5/att_img_width.asp – sbagdat Commented Mar 16, 2012 at 3:11
• svg (vectorial) images don't lose quality. It works for me in browsers/devices I tried – dstonek Commented Jul 10, 2018 at 20:53

Add a comment | 2 <div class="fixpixel"> <img src="ImagePath" /> </div>​​​​​​​​​​

CSS file

.fixpixel img{ height: auto; background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; } Share Improve this answer Follow edited Sep 1, 2017 at 9:32 answered Sep 1, 2017 at 9:22 Sabarish RSabarish R 8122 silver badges77 bronze badges Add a comment | 2

You add the following <meta> element in the head of your HTML document:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

Then you add

max-width:100%; height:auto;

as a CSS rule for both the image and the container of the image. (It can also work for the image without having a container.)

And you add

body { margin: 0; }

to get rid of the margin around the image and/or container. This is how your image will fill the whole width of the screen, no matter what size the screen is.

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Sep 9, 2019 at 4:32 tituszban 5,15222 gold badges2222 silver badges3232 bronze badges answered Sep 8, 2019 at 21:38 DianaHeitDianaHeit 3133 bronze badges Add a comment | 0

The margin of the body element is set to a default of 8px, which is the space you are seeing which prevent the image to stretch the full width and height of the screen.

You can include

body {margin: 0px;}

to prevent this behavior, which I guess was put in place to prevent unstyled pages to present the content pushing to the edge of the page. It was discussed here.

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Sep 22, 2018 at 12:58 SLopSLop 3166 bronze badges Add a comment |

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