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CSS

Posted by Simon Lindsay
Simon Lindsay
Courses Plus Student 12,179 Points

How do I get an image to fit the bootstrap carousel, and also be responsive?

I am using the twitter bootstrap carousel to scroll through three images. The only problem is that I cannot get the images to fill the corresponding divs that they sit within. Any ideas?

<div class="carousel-inner">

<div class="item active">      
    <img src="images/product_1.jpg" alt="First Product">                        
</div>

<div class="item">
  <img src="images/product_2.jpg" alt="Second Product">
</div>

<div class="item">
  <img src="images/product_3.jpg" alt="Third Product">
</div>

</div> </div> <a class="left carousel-control" href="#myCarousel" data-slide="prev"> <span class="icon-prev"> </span> </a> <a class="right carousel-control" href="#myCarousel" data-slide="next"> <span class="icon-next"> </span> </a>

</div>

3 Answers

geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points
geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points

In this case It's a matter of css rules. Getting your html alone doesn't help much. Have you tried to use on these images the property max-width: 100% ? This way the image fills 100% of its container's width.

However, I haven't used boostrap for a while, but I had in mind images inside the carousel were automatically responsive...

Simon Lindsay
PLUS
Simon Lindsay
Courses Plus Student 12,179 Points
Simon Lindsay
Simon Lindsay
Courses Plus Student 12,179 Points

Hi Geoffrey,

Yea I thought I'd show my HTML as all the CSS styles being applied are from the default bootstrap CSS file. I'm aware I'll have to change the CSS and have tried changing the max width to 100% and the height to auto but still have had no luck in getting the image to fill the carousel div.

Thanks

Simon

Raymon Oleaga
Raymon Oleaga
19,298 Points
Raymon Oleaga
Raymon Oleaga
19,298 Points

In your main css try: Img {background: cover;}

Or whatever is the selectors name that contains your image . I think in yours is "item"

Hope This helps