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CSS How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Make a CSS Image Gallery

Nick Nemethy
Nick Nemethy
724 Points
Posted by Nick Nemethy
Nick Nemethy
724 Points

Add CSS that will allow all images to fill their parent element. How do I do this?

I set the margin and padding to zero under # gallery. What am I missing?

2 Answers

Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points
Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points

Something like max-width:100%; or max-height:100%; perhaps?

Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points
Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points

Make sure the containing element is of position: relative (I think absolute and fixed should also work). Then you can set the image width and/or height to 100%. It really depends on what you want to do though, because your images won't always be the same dimension of your container. Assuming that most of your images and your container has a landscape layout, I would use width: 100%; and height: auto;