Responsive Image Center Crop to Aspect Ratio with CSS - css

I have been reading many solutions to this and tried most of them, but unfortunately I cannot get it like I want it working for all browsers.
What I basically want is to automatically crop images (from the center) to a defined aspect ratio. This should apply to "portrait" images (cropping on top and bottom) and also to landscape pictures (cropping left and right). It has to be responsive so that the images will always have the desired with (and height using the aspect ratio).
It is described well here: Center Crop Images but as in that solution I do not know if the picture will be to wide or to high.
I also cannot and don't want to work with background images.
I could get it to work to crop on top and bottom but when the image is wider than the desired aspect ratio it will "crunch" the images to look distorted.
Here is one of the solutions that worked partly:
/* wrapper div */
.iw-so-article-thumb {
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
/* text-align: center;*/
/* ensures the image is always in the h-middle */
border: 3px solid black;
}
/* create an aspect ratio of the wrapper */
.iw-so-article-thumb:before {
content: "";
display: block;
padding-top: 100%;
}
.iw-so-article-thumb img {
position: absolute;
top: -100%;
right: -100%;
bottom: -100%;
left: -100%;
margin: auto;
display: block;
min-width: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
object-fit: cover;
/* necessary to fill the frame/rescale the image */
}
This worked using "object-fit: cover" but not in IE/Edge as I found out (there pictures will be "crunched" when cropping should happen on the sides.
Like I said I tried many other solutions I found in forums/blogs but some didn't even work at all.
I suspect the cropping on the sides for wide images fails because the aspect ratio in the image wrapper is defined by the ratio of height to width, so the wrapper will take a responsive width and adapt the height (then crop by "overflow: hidden"). But when the image is wider than the aspect ratio it cannot handle this.
I am not sure if there is a pure CSS solution that works for all browsers including IE/Edge, I suspect there isn't, but I am happy to be taught otherwise.

Related

Fit image to grid item

I am trying to make a card element which consists of several text elements and an image. My goal is to make image only fit corresponding grid cell and not to cause it's growth. The height of grid row should be driven by text content (on the right side of the card).
I've managed to make it work on Chrome, but Firefox still allows image to be much bigger.
Here is my prototype: https://codepen.io/gmltA/pen/yLNWmrZ
Chrome:
Firefox:
I guess I'm missing something in this part of the code (which is responsible for grid item and it's contents)
.card__image-wrapper {
grid-area: img;
max-width: 124px;
padding: 4px;
img {
object-fit: contain;
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
}
}
The most obvious fallback option here is to set image as item background, but I honestly don't want to do this, if there is another solution.
a trick would be to give a bottom negative margin to image to avoid to stretch the container past height of sibblings.
img {
object-fit: contain;
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
margin-bottom:-100%;
display:block;
}
forked pen : https://codepen.io/gc-nomade/pen/gOpNYGj
beside the question, FF behavior seems the one to expect for my own humble opinion.

Image border issue on mobile devices (chrome) when using ::before background image

There are multiple places on our website where we are using .svg's with the background image rule to create shapes.
For example:
&:before {
bottom: auto;
height: 4rem;
content:'';
display: block;
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
background-image: url('img/layout/press-before.svg');
background-size: 100%;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
#media screen and (max-width: $viewport-xs) {
height: 2rem;
}
#media screen and (max-width: $viewport-sm) {
top: -.1rem;
}
}
This works well on desktop on all resolutions.
But on several mobile devices using chrome there is an issue when the adjected block has the same color.
There seems to be 1 or several pixels which are being interpolated incorrectly which leads to an edge of the underlying element showing.
Things I've tried:
+ use png, jpg instead of .svg to see if the problem relates to the rasterisation of .svg (problem persisted without difference)
+ moving the image up sligthly (line remained)
+ making it slightly larger (line remained)
For reference, see the following images.
issue example 1
issue example 2
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
The solution for me was to move the image up a little by adding top: -1px to the pseudo-element.
I tried this before I posted this question here and it didn't work.
This was related to the fact that the parent of the pseudo element was using overflow-x: hidden and because of this the overflow-y was automatically also hidden (I'm adding this for anyone having a similar issue).
Of course this means I need to tweak the shape of the svg's a little because it has moved up 1px.

bootstrap carousel sliders not confined to my images

I'm pretty new to coding so it may be that I do not understand what I'm doing. I've tried every bit of code advice given on this website that seems to pertain to my situation and I cannot get results!
My carousel sliders are outside my images and I need them in/on my images. I want them the size they currently are so viewers do not have to scroll up and down to view my entire picture. You can view my predicament at http://mirandarodgers.com/lenoxhouse.html
Like I said, I've tried everything under the sun. Currently my code just says:
.carousel .item{
min-height: 525px; /* Prevent carousel from being distorted if for some
reason image doesn't load */
}
.carousel .item img{
margin: 0 auto; /* Align slide image horizontally center */
position: absolute;
min-width: 100%;
height: 525px;
max-width: none;
}
I'm ashamed of how much of a hack this is, but it might help you out:
.right {
right: calc(100vw / 2 - 374px);
}
.left {
left: calc(100vw / 2 - 374px);
}
So to solve this I gave both the images and the .carousel a fixed max-height (I used 400px).
.carousel .item img,
.carousel {
max-height: 400px;
}
You vertical images will scale to a height of this value.
You can play around with different max-height values and even have the height depend upon the screen size using CSS Media Queries.
Whats happening is that the slider images are aligned to the sides of the actual carousel itself, if you want to restrict the size of the carousel set a max-width on it. This is because the size of your images cannot fit the width/height of the carousel and there isn't any code for resizing the img or the carousel. If you work on the resizing of your elements it should solve the problems you are having and try to find better images that are roughly the same dimensions or the carousel will expand/shrink unexpectedly if it isn't handled correctly.
I added the following to .carousel and it looked much better on the site.
.carousel {
max-width: 70%;
position: relative;
margin: auto;
}
Also i would add an img tag with
img {
max-width:100%
}
And this
.carousel .item {
max-height: 525px;
}

CSS fluid image replacement?

Using CSS to replace text with an image is a well known practice. CSS-Tricks has a museum of some techniques (http://css-tricks.com/examples/ImageReplacement/).
But none of these allows for replacement with a fluid image (for example, a logo that stretches across 100% of a fluid page layout). Is it possible to use CSS to do a fluid image replacement?
Almost all image replacement techniques use a background-image. And I know that you can set background-size: 100%. But it's not straightforward to get the height of the text element to scale with it's width because the browser doesn't consider the background image as part of the content.
I understand that any of the common image replacement techniques could be easily combined with media queries to incrementally change the size of the text element to specific height x width ratios that work. But that is incremental, not fluid.
I did find a blog post that discusses this (http://viljamis.com/blog/2011/fluid-image-replacement.php). But it turns out thay method actually requires putting an image in the html content. I'm looking for real text replacement.
Took some fiddling, but I figured out a way. The key is to use padding percentage to set the height, because padding-top and padding-bottom percentage is linked to container width (unlike height, which is linked to container height).
html
<h1 class="logo">The Logo</h1>
css
h1.logo {
background-image: url('logo.png');
background-size: 100%;
width: 100%;
padding-top: 29.8%;
height: 0;
text-indent: -9999px;
}
Where padding-top is calculated by dividing the image height by width.
Working example: http://jsfiddle.net/bXtRw/
I'll note that using overflow: hidden instead of text-indent: -9999px should also work. But I get unstable behavior in Firefox.
Also, using font-size: 0 instead of height: 0 produces unstable behavior in Firefox.
On the div that contains the background-image:
div {
max-width: 100%;
width: 100%;
min-height: 300px; //Adjust this number accordingly
height: auto;
}
I use a method identical to #Warren Whipple, but I usually use compass/sass. If you're not limited to using vanilla CSS, this method nicely abstracts a few pieces:
// Only works in Compass/Sass – not regular CSS!
h1.logo {
$header-logo-image: "logo.png";
background: image-url($header-logo-image) no-repeat;
background-size: 100%;
height: 0;
padding-top: percentage( image-height($header-logo-image) / image-width($header-logo-image) );
overflow: hidden;
width: 100%;
}
You should just have to replace the $header-logo-image variable with the name of your image.
In addition, I sometimes add: max-width: image-width($header-logo-image);, which will prevent the h1 from being sized any larger than its background image.

CSS force image resize and keep aspect ratio

I am working with images, and I ran into a problem with aspect ratios.
<img src="big_image.jpg" width="900" height="600" alt="" />
As you can see, height and width are already specified. I added a CSS rule for images:
img {
max-width: 500px;
}
But for big_image.jpg, I receive width=500 and height=600. How do I set images to be re-sized, whilst keeping their aspect ratios.
img {
display: block;
max-width:230px;
max-height:95px;
width: auto;
height: auto;
}
<p>This image is originally 400x400 pixels, but should get resized by the CSS:</p>
<img width="400" height="400" src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/aEEkn.png">
This will make image shrink if it's too big for specified area (as downside, it will not enlarge image).
Here's a solution:
object-fit: cover;
width: 100%;
height: 250px;
You can adjust the width and height to fit your needs, and the object-fit property will do the cropping for you.
More information about the possible values for the object-fit property and a compatibility table are available here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/object-fit
The solutions below will allow scaling up and scaling down of the image, depending on the parent box width.
All images have a parent container with a fixed width for demonstration purposes only. In production, this will be the width of the parent box.
Best Practice (2018):
This solution tells the browser to render the image with max available width and adjust the height as a percentage of that width.
.parent {
width: 100px;
}
img {
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
<p>This image is originally 400x400 pixels, but should get resized by the CSS:</p>
<div class="parent">
<img width="400" height="400" src="https://placehold.it/400x400">
</div>
Fancier Solution:
With the fancier solution, you'll be able to crop the image regardless of its size and add a background color to compensate for the cropping.
.parent {
width: 100px;
}
.container {
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: auto;
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 34.37% 0 0 0; /* 34.37% = 100 / (w / h) = 100 / (640 / 220) */
}
.container img {
display: block;
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
}
<p>This image is originally 640x220, but should get resized by the CSS:</p>
<div class="parent">
<div class="container">
<img width="640" height="220" src="https://placehold.it/640x220">
</div>
</div>
For the line specifying padding, you need to calculate the aspect ratio of the image, for example:
640px (w) = 100%
220px (h) = ?
640/220 = 2.909
100/2.909 = 34.37%
So, top padding = 34.37%.
Very similar to some answers here, but in my case I had images that sometimes were taller, sometimes larger.
This style worked like a charm to make sure that all images use all available space, keep the ratio and not cuts:
.img {
object-fit: contain;
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
width: auto;
height: auto;
}
The background-size property is ie>=9 only, but if that is fine with you, you can use a div with background-image and set background-size: contain:
div.image{
background-image: url("your/url/here");
background-size: contain;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center;
}
Now you can just set your div size to whatever you want and not only will the image keep its aspect ratio it will also be centralized both vertically and horizontally within the div. Just don't forget to set the sizes on the css since divs don't have the width/height attribute on the tag itself.
This approach is different than setecs answer, using this the image area will be constant and defined by you (leaving empty spaces either horizontally or vertically depending on the div size and image aspect ratio), while setecs answer will get you a box that exactly the size of the scaled image (without empty spaces).
Edit:
According to the MDN background-size documentation you can simulate the background-size property in IE8 using a proprietary filter declaration:
Though Internet Explorer 8 doesn't support the background-size property, it is possible to emulate some of its functionality using the non-standard -ms-filter function:
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='path_relative_to_the_HTML_file', sizingMethod='scale')";
Remove the "height" property.
<img src="big_image.jpg" width="900" alt=""/>
By specifying both you are changing the aspect ratio of the image. Just setting one will resize but preserve the aspect ratio.
Optionally, to restrict oversizings:
<img src="big_image.jpg" width="900" alt="" style="max-width:500px; height:auto; max-height:600px;"/>
Firefox 71+ (2019-12-03) and Chrome 79+ (2019-12-10) support internal mapping of the width and height HTML attributes of the IMG element to the new aspect-ratio CSS property (the property itself is not yet available for direct use).
The calculated aspect ratio is used to reserve space for the image until it is loaded, and as long as the calculated aspect ratio is equal to the actual aspect ratio of the image, page “jump” is prevented after loading the image.
For this to work, one of the two image dimensions must be overridden via CSS to the auto value:
IMG {max-width: 100%; height: auto; }
<img src="example.png" width="1280" height="720" alt="Example" />
In the example, the aspect ratio of 16:9 (1280:720) is maintained even if the image is not yet loaded and the effective image width is less than 1280 as a result of max-width: 100%.
See also the related Firefox bug 392261.
Here is a solution :
img {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
object-fit: cover;
}
This will make sure the image always covers the entire parent (scaling down and up) and keeps the same aspect ratio.
Just add this to your css, It will automaticly shrink and expand with keeping the original ratio.
img {
display: block;
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
width: auto;
height: auto;
}
This is mental. Use the scale-down property - it explains itself.
Inline styling:
<img src='/nic-cage.png' style={{ maxWidth: '50%', objectFit: 'scale-down' }} />
This will stop flex from stretching it. In this case, the image would go to 50% of the width of its parent container and the height would scale down to match.
Keep it simple.
Just replace the height attribute by the aspect-ratio attribute.
img {
max-width: 500px;
aspect-ratio: 900 / 600;
}
<img src="big_image.png" width="900"/>
The aspect-ratio attribute is not necessary, but prevent image layout shifts.
To maintain a responsive image while still enforcing the image to have a certain aspect ratio you can do the following:
HTML:
<div class="ratio2-1">
<img src="../image.png" alt="image">
</div>
And SCSS:
.ratio2-1 {
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
&:before {
content: '';
display: block;
padding-top: 50%; // ratio 2:1
}
img {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
}
}
This can be used to enforce a certain aspect ratio, regardless of the size of the image that authors upload.
Thanks to #Kseso at http://codepen.io/Kseso/pen/bfdhg. Check this URL for more ratios and a working example.
Set the CSS class of your image container tag to image-class:
<div class="image-full"></div>
and add this you your CSS stylesheet.
.image-full {
background: url(...some image...) no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
background-position: center center;
}
I would suggest for a responsive approach the best practice would be using the Viewport units and min/max attributes as follows:
img{
display: block;
width: 12vw;
height:12vw;
max-width:100%;
min-width:100px;
min-height:100px;
object-fit:contain;
}
To force image that fit in a exact size, you don't need to write too many codes. It's so simple
img{
width: 200px;
height: auto;
object-fit: contain; /* Fit logo in the image size */
-o-object-fit: contain; /* Fit logo fro opera browser */
object-position: top; /* Set logo position */
-o-object-position: top; /* Logo position for opera browser */
}
<img src="http://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/stackoverflow/company/img/logos/so/so-logo.png" alt="Logo">
https://jsfiddle.net/sot2qgj6/3/
Here is the answer if you want to put image with fixed percentage of width, but not fixed pixel of width.
And this will be useful when dealing with different size of screen.
The tricks are
Using padding-top to set the height from width.
Using position: absolute to put image in the padding space.
Using max-height and max-width to make sure the image will not over the parent element.
using display:block and margin: auto to center the image.
I've also comment most of the tricks inside the fiddle.
I also find some other ways to make this happen.
There will be no real image in html, so I personly perfer the top answer when I need "img" element in html.
simple css by using background
http://jsfiddle.net/4660s79h/2/
background-image with word on top
http://jsfiddle.net/4660s79h/1/
the concept to use position absolute is from here
http://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_aspect_ratio.asp
You can use this:
img {
width: 500px;
height: 600px;
object-fit: contain;
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
}
You can create a div like this:
<div class="image" style="background-image:url('/to/your/image')"></div>
And use this css to style it:
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
background-position: center center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: contain; // this can also be cover
You can set the container to display: flex and align-items: center (other align-items values work too). Instead of align-items you can also set align-self on the image itself.
This will make image shrink if it's too big for specified area (as downside, it will not enlarge image).
The solution by setec is fine for "Shrink to Fit" in auto mode.
But, to optimally EXPAND to fit in 'auto' mode, you need to first put the received image into a temp id,
Check if it can be expanded in height or in width (depending upon its aspect ration v/s the aspect ratio of your display block),
$(".temp_image").attr("src","str.jpg" ).load(function() {
// callback to get actual size of received image
// define to expand image in Height
if(($(".temp_image").height() / $(".temp_image").width()) > display_aspect_ratio ) {
$(".image").css('height', max_height_of_box);
$(".image").css('width',' auto');
} else {
// define to expand image in Width
$(".image").css('width' ,max_width_of_box);
$(".image").css('height','auto');
}
//Finally put the image to Completely Fill the display area while maintaining aspect ratio.
$(".image").attr("src","str.jpg");
});
This approach is useful when received images are smaller than display box. You must save them on your server in Original Small size rather than their expanded version to fill your Bigger display Box to save on size and bandwidth.
You Can use:-
transform: scaleX(1.2);
to change the width without changing height.
And
transform: scaleY(1.2);
to change the height without changing width
You can use this on images and video tags in html and css. This does not change the aspect ration also.
you can use aspect-ratio property css
.my-image {
aspect-ratio: 1/1; // square
aspect-ratio: 16/9; // wide screen 1080p
aspect-ratio: 4/3;
aspect-ratio: 2/3;
}
img {
max-width: 80px; /* Also works with percentage value like 100% */
height: auto;
}
<p>This image is originally 400x400 pixels, but should get resized by the CSS:</p>
<img width="400" height="400" src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/aEEkn.png">
<p>Let's say the author of the HTML deliberately wants
the height to be half the value of the width,
this CSS will ignore the HTML author's wishes, which may or may not be what you want:
</p>
<img width="400" height="200" src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/aEEkn.png">
How about using a pseudo element for vertical alignment? This less code is for a carousel but i guess it works on every fixed size container. It will keep the aspect ratio and insert #gray-dark bars on top/bottom or left/write for the shortest dimension. In the meanwhile the image is centered horizontally by the text-align and vertically by the pseudo element.
> li {
float: left;
overflow: hidden;
background-color: #gray-dark;
text-align: center;
> a img,
> img {
display: inline-block;
max-height: 100%;
max-width: 100%;
width: auto;
height: auto;
margin: auto;
text-align: center;
}
// Add pseudo element for vertical alignment of inline (img)
&:before {
content: "";
height: 100%;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
}
}
Fullscreen presentation:
img[data-attribute] {height: 100vh;}
Keep in mind that if the view-port height is greater than the image the image will naturally degrade relative to the difference.
If the application can have an image of any aspect ratio or resolution then you can manage height and width as in this link.
This uses Javascript and HTML
https://stackoverflow.com/a/65090175/13338731

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