How to style a div to be a responsive square? [duplicate]

Answer 1

HTML

<div class='square-box'>
    <div class='square-content'>
        <h3>test</h3>
    </div>
</div>

CSS

.square-box{
    position: relative;
    width: 50%;
    overflow: hidden;
    background: #4679BD;
}
.square-box:before{
    content: "";
    display: block;
    padding-top: 100%;
}
.square-content{
    position:  absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    right: 0;
    color: white;
    text-align: center;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/38Tnx/1425/

Answer 2

To achieve what you are looking for you can use the viewport-percentage length vw.

Here is a quick example I made on jsfiddle.

HTML:

<div class="square">
    <h1>This is a Square</h1>
</div>

CSS:

.square {
    background: #000;
    width: 50vw;
    height: 50vw;
}
.square h1 {
    color: #fff;
}

I am sure there are many other ways to do this but this way seemed the best to me.

Answer 3

Another way is to use a transparent 1x1.png with width: 100%, height: auto in a div and absolutely positioned content within it:

html:

<div>
    <img src="1x1px.png">
    <h1>FOO</h1>
</div>

css:

div {
    position: relative;
    width: 50%;
}

img {
    width: 100%;
    height: auto;
}

h1 {
    position: absolute;
    top: 10px;
    left: 10px;
}

Fidle: http://jsfiddle.net/t529bjwc/

Answer 4

This is what I came up with. Here is a fiddle.

First, I need three wrapper elements for both a square shape and centered text.

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sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat
volutpat.</div></div></div>

This is the stylecheet. It makes use of two techniques, one for square shapes and one for centered text.

body > div {
    position:relative;
    height:0;
    width:50%; padding-bottom:50%;
}

body > div > div {
    position:absolute; top:0;
    height:100%; width:100%;
    display:table;
    border:1px solid #000;
    margin:1em;
}

body > div > div > div{
    display:table-cell;
    vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;
    padding:1em;
}

Answer 5

It is as easy as specifying a padding bottom the same size as the width in percent. So if you have a width of 50%, just use this example below

id or class{
    width: 50%;
    padding-bottom: 50%;
}

Here is a jsfiddle http://jsfiddle.net/kJL3u/2/

Edited version with responsive text: http://jsfiddle.net/kJL3u/394

Answer 6

Works on almost all browsers.

You can try giving padding-bottom as a percentage.

<div style="height:0;width:20%;padding-bottom:20%;background-color:red">
<div>
Content goes here
</div>
</div>

The outer div is making a square and inner div contains the content. This solution worked for me many times.

Here's a jsfiddle