Aligning image to center inside a smaller div
I have a div with width:100px
and height:100px
(say)
Inside that, there is just an image, for which height is always fixed to 100px
.
I want to make the image horizontally center.
Here there are 3 cases:
- image's width is equal to div's width, no issues
- image's width is less than div's width, I can use
margin: auto
here - image's width is more than div's width
I want the center part of the image to be visible inside the div.
means, if image's width is 120px
and as div's width is 100px
and overflow:hidden
I want image's 10th px to 110th px to be visible (so, the left: 10px
and right: 10px
of image are hidden under the div )
Is this possible through some CSS property?
(I dont know the width of image which is loading! so I want it to be dynamic.
Also want to avoid javascript side calculations to find the extra amount of width and giving margin-left:
-ve value bla bla.. )
Also, I can't give the image as background-image
for the div!
See: http://jsfiddle.net/thirtydot/x62nV/ (and without overflow: hidden
to easily see the centering)
This will work in all browsers, with the possible exception of IE6.
For .imageContainer > span
, the margin-left
is derived from the width
, and the width
is an arbitrary number which controls the maximal image width that will be supported. You could set width: 10000px; margin-left: -4950px;
to support really wide images, if required.
HTML:
<div class="imageContainer">
<span><img src="http://dummyimage.com/100x100/f0f/fff" /></span>
</div>
CSS:
.imageContainer {
border: 1px solid #444;
overflow: hidden;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
margin: 15px;
text-align: center;
}
.imageContainer > span {
display: block;
width: 1000px;
margin-left: -450px; /* -(width-container width)/2 */
}
.imageContainer > span > img {
display: inline-block;
}