CSS Display an Image Resized and Cropped

Question

I want to show an image from an URL with a certain width and height even if it has a different size ratio. So I want to resize (maintaining the ratio) and then cut the image to the size I want.

I can resize with html img property and I can cut with background-image.
How can I do both?

Example:

This image:

Has the size 800x600 pixels and I want to show like an image of 200x100 pixels

With img I can resize the image 200x150px:

<img 
    style="width: 200px; height: 150px;" 
    src="http://img1.jurko.net/wall/paper/donald_duck_4.jpg">

That gives me this:

<img style="width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://img1.jurko.net/wall/paper/donald_duck_4.jpg">

And with background-image I can cut the image 200x100 pixels.

<div 
    style="background-image:
           url('http://img1.jurko.net/wall/paper/donald_duck_4.jpg'); 
    width:200px; 
    height:100px; 
    background-position:center;">&nbsp;</div>

Gives me:

<div style="background-image:url('http://img1.jurko.net/wall/paper/donald_duck_4.jpg'); width:200px; height:100px; background-position:center;">&nbsp;</div>

How can I do both?
Resize the image and then cut it the size I want?

Answer 1

In the crop class, place the image size that you want to appear:

.crop {
    width: 282px;
    height: 282px;
    overflow: hidden;
}
.crop span.img {
    background-position: center;
    background-size: cover;
    height: 282px;
    display: block;
}

The html will look like:

<div class="crop">
    <span class="img" style="background-image:url('http://url.to.image/image.jpg');"></span>
</div>

Answer 2

Live Example: https://jsfiddle.net/de4Lt57z/

HTML:

<div class="crop">
  <img src="example.jpg" alt="..." />
</div>

CSS:

    .crop img{
      width:400px;
      height:300px;
      position: absolute;
      clip: rect(0px,200px, 150px, 0px);
      }

Explanation: Here image is resized by width and height value of the image. And crop is done by clip property.

For details about clip property follow: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2013/01/16/understanding-the-css-clip-property/

Answer 3

<p class="crop"><a href="http://templatica.com" title="Css Templates">
    <img src="img.jpg" alt="css template" /></a></p> 

---

.crop {
    float: left;
    margin: .5em 10px .5em 0;
    overflow: hidden; /* this is important */
    position: relative; /* this is important too */
    border: 1px solid #ccc;
    width: 150px;
    height: 90px;
}
.crop img {
    position: absolute;
    top: -20px;
    left: -55px;
}

Answer 4

What I've done is to create a server side script that will resize and crop a picture on the server end so it'll send less data across the interweb.

It's fairly trivial, but if anyone is interested, I can dig up and post the code (asp.net)

Answer 5

You can put the img tag in a div tag and do both, but I would recommend against scaling images in the browser. It does a lousy job most of the time because browsers have very simplistic scaling algorithms. Better to do your scaling in Photoshop or ImageMagick first, then serve it up to the client nice and pretty.

Answer 6

If you are using Bootstrap, try using { background-size: cover; } for the <div> maybe give the div a class say <div class="example" style=url('../your_image.jpeg');> so it becomes div.example{ background-size: cover}