Making all photos square via css
I'm trying to make a series of photos into square photos. They may be rectangular horizontally (i.e. 600x400) or vertically (400x600), but I want to get them to be 175x175 either way. My thought was to max-height or max-width the smaller side, and not allow overflow beyond 175px on the larger side...however, I'm having problems with it.
Is this possible with css?
Below is my attempt, but it giving rectangles still:
<div style="min-height:175px; overflow:hidden; max-height:175px;">
<img style="min-width:175px; overflow:hidden; max-height:175px;" src="/photo.png">
</div>
Answer
You can set the width/height of the parent div then set the child img tag to width:100%; height: auto;
That will scale the image down to try to fit the parent with aspect ratio in mind.
You can also set the image as a background-image on the div Then if you can use css3 you can mess with the background-size property. It's attributes are: contain, cover, or a specificed height (50%, 50%) (175px, 175px) You could also try to center the picture with background-position
<div style="background-image:url(some.png); background-size: cover; background-position: 50%">