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Learn more about Labs Stretch Image to Fit 100% of Div Height and Width Ask Question Asked 11 years, 1 month ago Modified 4 years, 7 months ago Viewed 179k times 27

I have a div with the following CSS

#mydiv{ top: 50px; left: 50px; width: 200px; height: 200px; }

and my HTML looks like this

<div id = "mydiv"> <img src = "folder/file.jpg" width = "200px" height = "200px"> </div>

I'd like my web image to always be the same size (in a 1:1 aspect ration) no matter what the resolution of the actual image is. If my actual image files are square (with 1:1 ratio) then this isn't a problem. But if the actual image files are not square then the displayed web image do stretch to 100% of both the div's height and width (in this case 200px).

How do I get different image sizes to fit to my DIV?

• html
• css

Share Follow asked May 11, 2013 at 20:57 Lloyd BanksLloyd Banks 36.2k5858 gold badges162162 silver badges255255 bronze badges Add a comment |

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You're mixing notations. It should be:

<img src="folder/file.jpg" width="200" height="200">

(note, no px). Or:

<img src="folder/file.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 200px;">

(using the style attribute) The style attribute could be replaced with the following CSS:

#mydiv img { width: 200px; height: 200px; }

or

#mydiv img { width: 100%; height: 100%; } Share Follow edited May 11, 2013 at 21:14 answered May 11, 2013 at 21:00 bfavarettobfavaretto 71.9k1717 gold badges114114 silver badges155155 bronze badges Add a comment | 6

Instead of setting absolute widths and heights, you can use percentages:

#mydiv img { height: 100%; width: 100%; } Share Follow edited Jan 19, 2014 at 19:49 answered May 11, 2013 at 21:00 dodgerogers747dodgerogers747 3,33599 gold badges3535 silver badges5656 bronze badges 1

• 1 And, if your image is right next down the DOM tree use the direct child selector, #mydiv > img - major performance optimization right there. Remember, browsers (and most libraries like jQuery too) read CSS from right to left. – pilau Commented Feb 22, 2014 at 21:41

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Or you can put in the CSS,

<style> div#img { background-image: url(“file.png"); color:yellow (this part doesn't matter; height:100%; width:100%; } </style> Share Follow edited Aug 13, 2015 at 2:17 answered Aug 13, 2015 at 2:12 Haze811Haze811 4366 bronze badges Add a comment | 0

will the height attribute stretch the image beyond its native resolution? If I have a image with a height of say 420 pixels, I can't get css to stretch the image beyond the native resolution to fill the height of the viewport.

I am getting pretty close results with:

.rightdiv img { max-width: 25vw; min-height: 100vh; }

the 100vh is getting pretty close, with just a few pixels left over at the bottom for some reason.

Share Follow answered Nov 27, 2019 at 3:28 Jerritt PaceJerritt Pace 1 Add a comment |

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