I'm building a portfolio website.
HTML Code
<div id = "hero">
<div id = "social">
<img src = "facebook.svg">
<img src = "linkedin.svg">
<img src = "instagram.svg">
</div>
</div>
CSS code (using SASS)
#hero {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
height: 300px;
#social {
width: 50%;
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
flex-wrap: wrap;
img {
width: 2em;
}
}
}
The problem is that I'm not able to resize SVGs using the CSS width
property. Here is what I obtain in different cases:
img { width: 2em; }
img { width: 3em; }
img { width: em; }
Please note how icons collapse toward the middle of the hero
div.
Instead, if I use the CSS height
property:
img { height: 2em; }
img { height: 3em; }
img { height: 4em; }
This behaviour is what I need, but I'm not sure this is the right way. Why this happens? Do you know better ways of resizeing SVG images (especially using the flexbox model)?
SVGs are different than bitmap images such as PNG etc. If an SVG has a viewBox
- as yours appear to - then it will be scaled to fit it's defined viewport. It won't directly scale like a PNG would.
So increasing the width
of the img
won't make the icons any taller if the height is restricted. You'll just end up with the img
horizontally centred in a wider box.
I believe your problem is that your SVGs have a fixed height defined in them. Open up the SVG files and make sure they either:
- have no
width
and height
defined, or
- have
width
and height
both set to "100%"
.
That should solve your problem. If it doesn't, post one of your SVGs into your question so we can see how it is defined.
I had to figure it out myself but some svgs your need to match the viewport & width+height in.
E.g. if it already has width="x"
height="y"
then =>
add <svg ... viewport="0 0 [width] [height]">
and the opposite.
After that it will scale with <svg ... style="width: xxx; height: yyy;">
You have to modify the viewBox
property to change the height and the width correctly with a svg. It is in the <svg>
tag of the svg.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/viewBox
I have the same problem... and I found a simple solution.
Just import the SVG image with the follow tool, and export:
https://editor.method.ac/