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CSS

Posted by Grim Fandango
Grim Fandango
5,804 Points

Setting responsive images to only expand to 100% of their actual original size rather than viewport?

Hi,

This may be a silly question, but in my responsive design I want images to only ever expand to 100% of the original image size (and so never exceed the resolution of the actual image), but shrink to fit the width of smaller devices.

Is this possible with CSS?

Thanks :)

David Bath
David Bath
25,940 Points

Good question! You could give the image both width and max-width properties, but I believe it will require you to do the same thing for each image separately. So something like:

img {
  width: 100%;
  max-width: 400px; /* or whatever the true width of the image is */
}

I would like to know if there is a better way also.

1 Answer

Felix Lübke
Felix Lübke
5,730 Points
Felix Lübke
Felix Lübke
5,730 Points

Use my following code!

img {
    display: block;
    max-width: 100%;
    height: auto;
}
David Bath
David Bath
25,940 Points

Excellent! Though just specifying "max-width: 100%" seems to work just as well.