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CSS

Posted by Gabriel E
Gabriel E
8,916 Points

How can I size an image exactly?

Hi, I'm trying to size the height on my image on my webpage exactly, but can I do that in css? Thanks, also could you include some css code?

Stanley Thijssen
Stanley Thijssen
22,831 Points

Do you mean you want a full page image thats the size of your whole webpage?

Or you just wnna adjust the size of an image with css?

Gabriel E
Gabriel E
8,916 Points

I just want to size each image with css so that they are all exact

2 Answers

Stanley Thijssen
Stanley Thijssen
22,831 Points

Select the image you want with your css selector and give them a height and width:

(your css selector on the image you wnna adjust) {
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
}
Gabriel E
Gabriel E
8,916 Points

alright, thanks!

Erwin Meesters
Erwin Meesters
15,088 Points
Erwin Meesters
Erwin Meesters
15,088 Points

That's not the right way actually. When you have images on your page which differ in height and width, you cannot make them the same size by selecting these images directly and give them a height and width. Your images will look distorted.

There are two way's to solve this:

  1. Make your images the same size in Photoshop or something and crop them out to 100x100px.
  2. Put the images in a parent container div and give the container a height and width of 100x100px and your image a max-width of 100%;
.image-container {
 height: 100px;
 width: 100px;
 overflow: hidden;
}
.image-container img {
  max-height: 100%;
 width: auto;
}

You will loose part of your image, if you don't want that the best way is to crop them the same size with Photoshop. But cropping with Photoshop does essentially the same thing but you have better control over the part that's gets cut out.