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Zincktest
Zincktest

Reputation: 749

Avoid stretch on image css

I am rendering an image into a div. I want to avoid stretching of my image.

div {
  height: 300px;
  width: 300px; 
}
img {
  min-width: 300px;
  min-height: 300px;
  max-height: 300px;   
}

My problem is that my image's width stretches. I want it to have the regular width even though parts of the image will be missing.

div {
  height: 300px;
  width: 300px; 
  overflow: hidden;
}
img {
  height: 300px
  max-width: none;
  min-width: 300px;
}

Upvotes: 32

Views: 114723

Answers (11)

somdow
somdow

Reputation: 6318

I'm adding this to expand on the answers given since some of the answers given like adding width:100% height:auto" etc., will still technically stretch Images and/or make them blurry at times. Let me explain.

I work on a lot of eCommerce websites adding products etc and image stretching/blurring is always a problem. Most times, an image scaling down isn't that much of a issue, so the answers given as far as width:100%; height: auto; etc., work just fine. But there are problems when scaling up if the image's container width is larger than the image's native/normal width.

So for example, if you have an image whose width is 100px, and a div container whose width is 200px, if you add a width:100% and height: auto; to your image randomly, this won't technically "stretch" an image, but it will make it look blurry because you are stretching your image past its normal width.

To fix this, one thing i normally do is something like this, assuming on the desktop, that you have an image that you want to show at its 100% native width with no scaling/stretching/blurring whatsoever, I do something like:

img{
  display:block;
  margin:0px auto;
  width: initial;
  height: auto;
}

which keeps my images at their native width with no scaling whatsoever. But then, when an image is going to be seen on a smaller device, I add the same rule block into a media query and do something like:

@media all and (max-width: 1200px){
  img{
    width:100%;
    height:auto;
  }
}

What this is effectively saying is "Hey Image, make my image responsive from point A to point B(mobile devices), but once you go from point B to point C (small laptops to desktops where the image fits normally and doesn't need to stretch), make the width equal to its default native width".

Hope this helps. Happy coding everyone.

Upvotes: 0

Gass
Gass

Reputation: 9344

To avoid the image from resizing use:

object-fit: none;

More about object-fit

The CSS object-fit property is used to specify how an or should be resized to fit its container.

This property tells the content to fill the container in a variety of ways; such as "preserve that aspect ratio" or "stretch up and take up as much space as possible".

Object-fit Values

  • fill: this is default. The image is resized to fill the given dimension. If necessary, the image will be stretched or squished to fit.
  • contain: the image keeps its aspect ratio, but is resized to fit within the given dimension
  • cover: the image keeps its aspect ratio and fills the given dimension. The image will be clipped to fit
  • none: the image is not resized scale-down - the image is scaled down to the smallest version of none or contain.

More info and examples

Upvotes: 3

Mundruku
Mundruku

Reputation: 339

After giving the image a fixed height and width, I added object-fit as below:

img {
  width: 300px;
  height: 300px;
  object-fit: contain;
}

Upvotes: 0

Tanny Nguyen
Tanny Nguyen

Reputation: 144

==>If you are gonna have fixed height and don't want width stretched

div {
  height: 300px;
  width: 300px; 
  overflow: hidden;
}
img {
  height: 300px
}

==>If you are gonna have fixed width and don't want height stretched

div {
   height: 300px;
   width: 300px; 
   overflow: hidden;
}
img {
 width: 300px
}

Upvotes: 0

Vincent
Vincent

Reputation: 4409

To make it more flexible as just using 300px use:

img { width: 100%; object-fit: cover; }

Height is automatically adjusted

Upvotes: 4

Al Amin
Al Amin

Reputation: 949

You can achieve this with simply adding object-fit: cover;. An example might be like - 

img {
    height: 300px
    width: 100%;
    object-fit: cover;
}

Upvotes: 63

Jyothish Kumar
Jyothish Kumar

Reputation: 29

just specify max-width 100% and height :auto

Upvotes: 2

ZombieCode
ZombieCode

Reputation: 1661

I would forget setting the min-height and the max-height. Just set the height to be 300 pixels and put an overflow hidden on the div tag. That way no matter what the image size it will always stay in proportion and never go outside the boundaries of your div tag.

div { height: 300px; width: 300px; overflow: hidden; }
img { height: 300px; }

Upvotes: 13

snumpy
snumpy

Reputation: 2878

You can use overflow:hidden to hide any portion of the image outside of the width of the div.

div {
       height: 300px;
       width: 300px; 
       overflow: hidden;
    }
img {
       /*min-width: 300px;*/
       height: 300px;   
    }

Upvotes: 1

justisb
justisb

Reputation: 7270

Use max-width instead of min-width, and just set height to 300px (or only use max-height).

Upvotes: 2

Shomz
Shomz

Reputation: 37701

Put the image as the div background if you want to avoid stretching the easiest way (yet maintain the original width).

Upvotes: 7

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