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

Tommaso Giuseppini
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How to add CSS that will allow all images to fill their parent element

in this correct? img { max-with: 100%; }

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Codin - Codesmite
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Codin - Codesmite
Codin - Codesmite
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max-width can be any size up until the declared size. In your example max-width: 100%; could mean any size that is either 100% or less.

You would want to declare width: 100% to set it to always be 100% without exception.

img {
   max-width: 100%; /* Any size that is 100% or less */
   min-width: 100%; /* Any size that is 100% or more */
   width: 100%;     /* 100% width without exception */
}

Examples:

/* img would be rendered at 30% width */
img {
   max-width: 100%;
   width: 30%;
}

/* img would be rendered at 90% width */
img {
   max-width: 90%;
   width: 100%;
}

/* img would be rendered at 70% width */
img {
   min-width: 70%;
   width: 30%;
}

/* img would be rendered at 100% width */
img {
   width: 100%;
}