How to center and crop an image to always appear in square shape with CSS?

Question

I need to always crop a random-sized image to a square 160x160 using only CSS. The images should stay centered when cropped.

My markup should be:

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Answer 1

object-fit property does the magic. On JsFiddle.

CSS

.image {
  width: 160px;
  height: 160px;
}

.object-fit_fill {
  object-fit: fill
}

.object-fit_contain {
  object-fit: contain
}

.object-fit_cover {
  object-fit: cover
}

.object-fit_none {
  object-fit: none
}

.object-fit_scale-down {
  object-fit: scale-down
}

HTML

<div class="original-image">
  <p>original image</p>
  <img src="http://lorempixel.com/500/200">
</div>

<div class="image">
  <p>object-fit: fill</p>
  <img class="object-fit_fill" src="http://lorempixel.com/500/200">
</div>

<div class="image">
  <p>object-fit: contain</p>
  <img class="object-fit_contain" src="http://lorempixel.com/500/200">
</div>

<div class="image">
  <p>object-fit: cover</p>
  <img class="object-fit_cover" src="http://lorempixel.com/500/200">
</div>

<div class="image">
  <p>object-fit: none</p>
  <img class="object-fit_none" src="http://lorempixel.com/500/200">
</div>

<div class="image">
  <p>object-fit: scale-down</p>
  <img class="object-fit_scale-down" src="http://lorempixel.com/500/200">
</div>

Result

Answer 2

clip property with position may help you

a{
position:absolute;
clip:rect(0px,200px,200px,0px);
}

a img{
position:relative;
left:-50%;
top:-50%;
 }

WORKING FIDDLE

Answer 3

HTML:

<div class="thumbnail">
</div>

CSS:

.thumbnail { 
background: url(image.jpg) 50% 50% no-repeat; /* 50% 50% centers image in div */
width: 250px;
height: 250px;
}