Yesterday, if you have noticed, my blog was down for few hours. This was because I had problems with my WordPress theme with sidebars getting messed up and found it hard to fix it up. I finally managed to debug this issue and found out it was all due to image over-sizing in my latest post. I googled a lot to find a fix for auto resizing images in wordpress, but most of them were either blog theme specific or were controlling the image size before image upload.
Then I found out a quick and easy way to rezise images with CSS by keeping your image’s aspect ratio. This is very quick you can use it in less than 5 minutes, lets proceed!
Lets say you want to show large images on your web page with maximum 200 pixels width, blog or forums just create the following css class into your styling css file:
.resize {
width: 200px;
height : auto;
}.resize {
width: auto;
height : 300px;
}
Second class will resize the images by keeping height as 300 pixels. You can use the following classes in <IMG> tags like:
<img src="http://mywebsite.com/myphoto.jpg" class="resize" alt="my photo">
The above solution is always better than putting width and height attributes into the <IMG> tag. Hope it works out for you too
Raju PP is the founder-editor of Technically Personal, which is one of the most widely read technology blogs on the web. He holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication, and has previously worked as a Technical Specialist in Banking Software domain.
OMG. and here i was, manually as in painstakingly and manually placing width and height attributes on almost ALL of my images just to optimize them.
fantastic tip! dugg it, bookmarked it, love it! ^_^
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Thanks a lot buddy
the only problem with this is if the image is 2Mb then the whole thing will be downloaded and then bowser-side resized. so it’s useful to an extent of sane usage
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wow! obviously i didnt know this Stratos. I have been using this for the past 3 months without a problem, must be within that sane usage range then !
WHERE EXACTLY DO I PUT THIS IN MY CSS?
@310,
Inside your content body, there will be”img” tag. Under that you need to have “resize” defined.
Im having abit of trouble… when I put the code into the CSS file and the ‘class=”resize”‘ in the html tag, it only seems to resize the images height wise to a certain pixel but not width wise, its as if its almost one or the other, which defeats the object of the code.
I want code to make individual images load into a 650px x 500px div, resizing images accordingly depending on their dimensions. Am I looking in completely the wrong place?
Found what I was looking for….
http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/40356
this helped me but in a separate website. i have a problem regarding with plugins (for banner) in wordpress, different banners has its own ups and downs, i have found a new plugin and its great but the catch is, it doesn’t have the automatic resize feature. i do hope i can fix this bug!
Thank you very much for the code. I worked a lot of work. I thing is a lot of time searching.
I’ve done in this way. Makes bigger picture smaller. The size of the value that you have a small picture of picture does not grow.
.postarea img {
max-width: 100px;
height: auto;
width: expression(this.width > 100 ? 100: true);
}
The postarea, writing which contains the name of the div code.
I know you posted this two years ago, but it’s still useful. I’ve being trying to solve “stretched” thumbnail images for a couple of days, finally found this via google, problem solved in seconds. Thankyou, thankyou!
Hi Raju its a really nice trick.
But I want my image to be clicked to see the image in its original Aspect Ratio .
Can N E 1 help me out ?!. . . .
Thank you
it war really useful
also tnx Bahattin
I used this today on a shopping cart, worked a treat. Thanks Raju.
wondering how google sees this – pages get penalized as much as 5 – 10 points on speed if size and width aren’t specified …
what is your experience with the css resize?
This seems to work in Firefox and Explorer, but is anyone else having problems with this working in Google Chrome? Thanks!
nice work
This is very nice. I wonder, is there a way to EXCLUDE this from my lightbox images that show full size? I only want it to apply to the images in the post, not when they lightbox.
Thanks a lot !!!