I have an <img> that shows a remote image.
I want it to fallback to another local image, in the case where the remote one is not reachable.
<img class="cc_image fallback" src="http://www.iconarchive.com/download/i82888/limav/flat-gradient-social/Creative-Commons.ico">
.cc_image {
width: 256px;
height: 256px;
}
.cc_image.fallback {
/* this URL here is theoretically a local one (always reachable) */
background-image: url('https://cdn2.iconfinder.com/data/icons/picons-basic-3/57/basic3-010_creative_commons-256.png');
}
It works so that when the src image is not found then the background image will be shown.
The drawbacks are:
it will always load the background image (additional HTTP request)
it shows a little not-found-icon (a question mark on Safari) at the place of te original image, that is displayed above the background-image (not a big issue, but I'd like to get rid of it)
How could I solve these issues?
Or: are there other technics to achieve the same result?
I found this question but the given solutions rely on Javascript or on <object> (that seems to not work on Chrome). I would like a pure CSS/HTML solution, without Javascript if possible.
I know about the multiple background-image but am not sure whether it is a good option (browser support? and will it fallback with an unreachable image?).
Or I was thinking about embedding a SVG image as data-uri.
Suggestions for the most flexible (and compatible) method?
Unfortunately, you can't achieve both without Javascript or object tag.
You could do this to avoid the missing image icon:
Place your image in a container (it might already be in one).
Make the container have the same width and height as the image.
Set the fallback image as the background image of the container.
Set the remote image as the background image of your img tag.
Load an 1x1 pixel transparent png as the src of your image (see code for how that can be done without an extra HTTP request).
Code:
HTML
<!-- you could use any other tag, such as span or a instead of div, see css below -->
<div class="cc_image_container fallback">
<img class="cc_image" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" style="background-image: url(*your remote image*)"/>
</div>
CSS
.fallback {
background-image: url(*fallback image here*);
display: inline-block; /*to ensure it wraps correctly around the image, even if it is a a or span tag*/
min-width: specify a minimum width (could be the width of the fallback image) px;
min-height: specify a minimum height (could be the height of the fallback image) px;
background-position: center center; // fallback for older browsers
background-size: cover;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
.cc_image {
min-width: same as container px;
min-height: same as container px;
background-position: center center; // fallback for older browsers
background-size: cover;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
min-width and max-width make sure that the background images remain visible.
background-position makes sure that the central part of the images remains visible and is a graceful degradation for older browsers
background-size resizes the background image to fill the element background. The cover value means that the image will be resized so it will completely cover the element (some of the outer edges of the image may be cropped)
The base64 data in the img src tag is a transparent 1px png.
This will have an additional benefit that regular users and some bots may not be able to save your images (a rudimentary image protection)
The only drawback is, that you will still have one extra HTTP request for the fallback image.
I have found a solution on Codepen, which I would like to share with you:
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/Eqgyyo
I prefer this solution, because it works with real image tags, not background images.
body {
color: #2c3e50;
font-family: 'verdana';
line-height: 1.35em;
padding: 30px;
}
h1 {
margin-bottom: 40px;
}
ul {
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
}
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
img {
color: #95a5a6;
font-size: 12px;
min-height: 50px;
position: relative;
}
img:before {
background: #f1f1f1;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
border-radius: 3px;
content: '\1F517' ' broken image of 'attr(alt);
display: block;
left: 0;
padding: 10px;
position: absolute;
top: -10px;
width: 100%;
}
<h1>Broken image fallback CSS</h1>
<img src="no-image-here" alt="Cats with synthesizers in the space " />
<br /><br />
<ul>
<li>✓ Firefox</li>
<li>✓ Chrome</li>
<li>✓ Opera</li>
<li>✗ Safari (desktop, mobile)</li>
<li>✗ iOS webview</li>
</ul>
I'm trying to fill a window with an image. I'm using CSS to try to work this, but I was wondering if there's a way to maximize the width/height of the image until all the white space is filled, but not ruin the quality.
<div class='rel-img-cont'>
<img src='src.jpg' />
</div>
.rel-img-cont
{
width: 100px; height: 100px; overflow: hidden;
}
.rel-img-cont img
{
height: 100px; margin:0 0 0 0;
}
How can I fill the white space so even if one of the sizes has to overflow, it will only go up to 100px.
Is there a way to do this even if the original image is say, 100px x 100px or 150px x 200px, no matter which one, 100px is max, so one of the sides will have to give.
Thanks
You may find background-size css property interesting. Because this property does the same which you are trying to approach here. But this will work for background-image.
background-size: 100% 100%;
.rel-img-cont {
width: 100%;
height: 100%; }
.rel-img-cont img {
height:100%;
width:100%; }
Please see the demo
You can make width as 100% and leave the height to auto. And use only those img's which are proportionate to your div.
Use this code which is tested on my machine
<style>
.rel-img-cont
{
width: 10%; height: 10%; overflow: hidden;
border:3px solid orange;
}
.rel-img-cont img
{
height: 100%; margin:0 0 0 0;
width:100%;
}
</style>
Its better to use % instead of px in this case
<div id="Maindiv" style="width:100px;height:100px">
<img id="Img" src="http://blog.flattr.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/stackoverflow.png" alt="Image" />
</div>
CSS
#Maindiv img
{
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
What is the proper way to create responsive, transparent CSS captions over images — with graceful degradation in older browsers?
I am trying to achieve:
Centered vertical column of images
Images are equal heights and widths
Each image has a caption which should be centered
Caption should have a see-through background
Would be nice if the background became black in older browsers that don't support transparency
If you take a look at this Fiddle example, there's clearly a lot wrong with it.
The basic premise for HTML5 is:
<section>
<figure>
<img src="1.jpg">
<figcaption>Caption 1</figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<img src="2.jpg">
<figcaption>Caption 2</figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<img src="3.jpg">
<figcaption>Caption 3</figcaption>
</figure>
</section>
But the CSS3 code is where we get some problems. Is it the right approach even? I got it to work with some fine-tuning (not included), but the fine-tuning doesn't seem to make semantic sense to me anyway.
For example, this is the result:
I have a feeling the CSS is wrong on many levels (pun intended).
I modified your CSS slightly. The main changes were adding position: relative; to the parent element and position: absolute; to the caption.
CSS:
section {
overflow: auto;
}
section figure {
float: left;
clear: both;
position: relative;
overflow: auto;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 30px 0 0 0;
font-size: 15px;
}
section figure img {
vertical-align: bottom;
}
section figure figcaption {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.7);
text-align: center;
color: #fff;
padding: 10px;
}
section {
padding-bottom: 30px;
background: #ccc;
}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/XjthT/6/
So i am making a responsive design for a school assignment and i am trying to center an image width.
i scaled the image in photoshop so i don't have to set any width or height to the image
this is what i got now but this does not work
<header>
<img src="afb%20/logo3.png" alt="logo3" width="" height="" />
</header>
header{
width: 100%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
Can someone help me out ? really need this !
thanks in advance
Just set text-align: center in the header CSS.
You are currently making the header 100% width, so your margins wont apply. Furthurmore since your container is 100% wide and there is no text-alignment, the img will ALWAYS be aligned on the left.
Here:
header { width: 100%; text-align: center; }
http://jsfiddle.net/xMPZ4/
.center{margin: 0px auto; display: block;}
<header><img src="updates_button.jpg" alt="logo3" class="center"></header>
You could add a logo class to the image and set the CSS to : margin:0px auto; width:200px; of course replace the image width...
I need to make this image stretch to the maximum size possible without overflowing it's <div> or skewing the image.
I can't predict the aspect-ratio of the image, so there's no way to know whether to use:
<img src="url" style="width: 100%;">
or
<img src="url" style="height: 100%;">
I can't use both (i.e. style="width: 100%; height: 100%;") because that will stretch the image to fit the <div>.
The <div> has a size set by percentage of the screen, which is also unpredictable.
Update 2016:
Modern browser behave much better. All you should need to do is to set the image width to 100% (demo)
.container img {
width: 100%;
}
Since you don't know the aspect ratio, you'll have to use some scripting. Here is how I would do it with jQuery (demo):
CSS
.container {
width: 40%;
height: 40%;
background: #444;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.container img.wide {
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
height: auto;
}
.container img.tall {
max-height: 100%;
max-width: 100%;
width: auto;
}
HTML
<div class="container">
<img src="http://i48.tinypic.com/wrltuc.jpg" />
</div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="container">
<img src="http://i47.tinypic.com/i1bek8.jpg" />
</div>
Script
$(window).load(function(){
$('.container').find('img').each(function(){
var imgClass = (this.width/this.height > 1) ? 'wide' : 'tall';
$(this).addClass(imgClass);
})
})
There is a much easier way to do this using only CSS and HTML:
HTML:
<div
class="fill"
style="background-image: url('path/to/image.jpg');">
</div>
CSS:
.fill {
background-size: cover;
background-position: center;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
This will place your image as the background, and stretch it to fit the div size without distortion.
Not a perfect solution, but this CSS might help. The zoom is what makes this code work, and the factor should theoretically be infinite to work ideally for small images - but 2, 4, or 8 works fine in most cases.
#myImage {
zoom: 2; //increase if you have very small images
display: block;
margin: auto;
height: auto;
max-height: 100%;
width: auto;
max-width: 100%;
}
If you're able to set the image as a background-image then you can do something like this, which will crop the image without stretching it:
<div style="background-image: url(...); background-size: cover; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></div>
If you need to stick with an <img> tag, then as of 2019, you can now use the object-fit css property that accepts the following values:
fill | contain | cover | none | scale-down
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/object-fit
As an example, you could have a container that holds an image:
<div class="container">
<img src="" class="container_img" />
</div>
.container {
height: 50px;
width: 50%;
}
.container_img {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
object-fit: cover;
}
If you can, use background images and set background-size: cover. This will make the background cover the whole element.
CSS
div {
background-image: url(path/to/your/image.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 50% 50%;
background-size: cover;
}
If you're stuck with using inline images there are a few options. First, there is
object-fit
This property acts on images, videos and other objects similar to background-size: cover.
CSS
img {
object-fit: cover;
}
Sadly, browser support is not that great with IE up to version 11 not supporting it at all. The next option uses jQuery
CSS + jQuery
HTML
<div>
<img src="image.png" class="cover-image">
</div>
CSS
div {
height: 8em;
width: 15em;
}
Custom jQuery plugin
(function ($) {
$.fn.coverImage = function(contain) {
this.each(function() {
var $this = $(this),
src = $this.get(0).src,
$wrapper = $this.parent();
if (contain) {
$wrapper.css({
'background': 'url(' + src + ') 50% 50%/contain no-repeat'
});
} else {
$wrapper.css({
'background': 'url(' + src + ') 50% 50%/cover no-repeat'
});
}
$this.remove();
});
return this;
};
})(jQuery);
Use the plugin like this
jQuery('.cover-image').coverImage();
It will take an image, set it as a background image on the image's wrapper element and remove the img tag from the document. Lastly you could use
Pure CSS
You might use this as a fallback. The image will scale up to cover it's container but it won't scale down.
CSS
div {
height: 8em;
width: 15em;
overflow: hidden;
}
div img {
min-height: 100%;
min-width: 100%;
width: auto;
height: auto;
max-width: none;
max-height: none;
display: block;
position: relative;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
Hope this might help somebody, happy coding!
Thanks to CSS3
img
{
object-fit: contain;
}
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/object-fit
IE and EDGE as always outsiders:
http://caniuse.com/#feat=object-fit
That's impossible with just HTML and CSS, or at least wildly exotic and complicated. If you're willing to throw some javascript in, here's a solution using jQuery:
$(function() {
$(window).resize(function() {
var $i = $('img#image_to_resize');
var $c = $img.parent();
var i_ar = $i.width() / $i.height(), c_ar = $c.width() / $c.height();
$i.width(i_ar > c_ar ? $c.width() : $c.height() * (i_ar));
});
$(window).resize();
});
That will resize the image so that it will always fit inside the parent element, regardless of it's size. And as it's binded to the $(window).resize() event, when user resizes the window, the image will adjust.
This does not try to center the image in the container, that would be possible but I guess that's not what you're after.
You can use object-fit: cover; on the parent div.
https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/o/object-fit/
Set width and height of the outer container div. Then use below styling on img:
.container img{
width:100%;
height:auto;
max-height:100%;
}
This will help you to keep an aspect ratio of your img
If you want to set a max width or height (so that it will not be very large) while keeping the images aspect-ratio, you can do this:
img{
object-fit: contain;
max-height: 70px;
}
I came across this question searching for a simular problem. I'm making a webpage with responsive design and the width of elements placed on the page is set to a percent of the screen width. The height is set with a vw value.
Since I'm adding posts with PHP and a database backend, pure CSS was out of the question. I did however find the jQuery/javascript solution a bit troblesome, so I came up with a neat (so I think myself at least) solution.
HTML (or php)
div.imgfill {
float: left;
position: relative;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 50% 50%;
background-size: cover;
width: 33.333%;
height: 18vw;
border: 1px solid black; /*frame of the image*/
margin: -1px;
}
<div class="imgfill" style="background-image:url(source/image.jpg);">
This might be some info
</div>
<div class="imgfill" style="background-image:url(source/image2.jpg);">
This might be some info
</div>
<div class="imgfill" style="background-image:url(source/image3.jpg);">
This might be some info
</div>
By using style="" it's posible to have PHP update my page dynamically and the CSS-styling together with style="" will end up in a perfectly covered image, scaled to cover the dynamic div-tag.
To make this image stretch to the maximum size possible without overflowing it's or skewing the image.
Apply...
img {
object-fit: cover;
height: -webkit-fill-available;
}
styles to the image.
Using this method you can fill in your div with the image varying ratio of divs and images.
jQuery:
$(window).load(function(){
$('body').find(.fillme).each(function(){
var fillmeval = $(this).width()/$(this).height();
var imgval = $this.children('img').width()/$this.children('img').height();
var imgClass;
if(imgval > fillmeval){
imgClass = "stretchy";
}else{
imgClass = "stretchx";
}
$(this).children('img').addClass(imgClass);
});
});
HTML:
<div class="fillme">
<img src="../images/myimg.jpg" />
</div>
CSS:
.fillme{
overflow:hidden;
}
.fillme img.stretchx{
height:auto;
width:100%;
}
.fillme img.stretchy{
height:100%;
width:auto;
}
This did the trick for me
div img {
width: 100%;
min-height: 500px;
width: 100vw;
height: 100vh;
object-fit: cover;
}
if you working with IMG tag, it's easy.
I made this:
<style>
#pic{
height: 400px;
width: 400px;
}
#pic img{
height: 225px;
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
}
</style>
<div id="pic"><img src="images/menu.png"></div>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#pic img').attr({ 'style':'height:25%; display:none; left:100px; top:100px;' })
)}
but i didn't find how to make it work with #pic { background:url(img/menu.png)}
Enyone?
Thanks
I had similar issue. I resolved it with just CSS.
Basically Object-fit: cover helps you achieve the task of maintaining the aspect ratio while positioning an image inside a div.
But the problem was Object-fit: cover was not working in IE and it was taking 100% width and 100% height and aspect ratio was distorted. In other words image zooming effect wasn't there which I was seeing in chrome.
The approach I took was to position the image inside the container with absolute and then place it right at the centre using the combination:
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
Once it is in the centre, I give to the image,
// For vertical blocks (i.e., where height is greater than width)
height: 100%;
width: auto;
// For Horizontal blocks (i.e., where width is greater than height)
height: auto;
width: 100%;
This makes the image get the effect of Object-fit:cover.
Here is a demonstration of the above logic.
https://jsfiddle.net/furqan_694/s3xLe1gp/
This logic works in all browsers.
HTML:
<style>
#foo, #bar{
width: 50px; /* use any width or height */
height: 50px;
background-position: center center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
}
</style>
<div id="foo" style="background-image: url('path/to/image1.png');">
<div id="bar" style="background-image: url('path/to/image2.png');">
JSFiddle
...And if you want to set or change the image (using #foo as an example):
jQuery:
$("#foo").css("background-image", "url('path/to/image.png')");
JavaScript:
document.getElementById("foo").style.backgroundImage = "url('path/to/image.png')";
Many of the solutions found here have some limitation: some not working in IE ( object-fit) or older browsers, other solutions do not scale up the images (only shrink it), many solution do not support resize of the window and many are not generic, either expect fix resolution or layout(portrait or landscape)
If using javascript and jquery is not a problem I have this solution based on the code of #Tatu Ulmanen. I fixed some issues, and added some code in case the image is loaded dinamically and not available at begining. Basically the idea is to have two different css rules and apply them when required: one when the limitation is the height, so we need to show black bars at the sides, and othe css rule when the limitation is the width, so we need to show black bars at the top/bottom.
function applyResizeCSS(){
var $i = $('img#imageToResize');
var $c = $i.parent();
var i_ar = Oriwidth / Oriheight, c_ar = $c.width() / $c.height();
if(i_ar > c_ar){
$i.css( "width","100%");
$i.css( "height","auto");
}else{
$i.css( "height","100%");
$i.css( "width","auto");
}
}
var Oriwidth,Oriheight;
$(function() {
$(window).resize(function() {
applyResizeCSS();
});
$("#slide").load(function(){
Oriwidth = this.width,
Oriheight = this.height;
applyResizeCSS();
});
$(window).resize();
});
For an HTML element like:
<img src="images/loading.gif" name="imageToResize" id="imageToResize"/>
try this
HTML:
<div class="container"></div>
CSS:
.container{
background-image: url("...");
background-size: 100%;
background-position: center;
}