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CSS

Posted by Halie Montgomery
Halie Montgomery
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How do I insert an Image as a div with specific proportions?

How do I insert an Image as a div with specific proportions?

1 Answer

Jamie Reardon
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Jamie Reardon
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Jamie Reardon
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Jamie Reardon
Treehouse Project Reviewer

You could use the background-image property for the image to replace the element's default transparent background. Then you can use the width and height property to give it the defined dimensions you want.

If you do add any padding for content breathing room, you could add the box-sizing property and value of border-box to ensure that your image element won't get any larger than the dimensions you defined.

Here I made an example with the div tag and used the background shorthand property to define the image.

div {
  background: orange url("URL_to_image") no-repeat center / cover;
  width: 200px: /* replace this value to your own */
  height: 200px; /* replace this value to your own */
  box-sizing: border-box;
}