How to resize images proportionally / keeping the aspect ratio?

Question

I have images that will be quite big in dimension and I want to shrink them down with jQuery while keeping the proportions constrained, i.e. the same aspect ratio.

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Answer 1

2 Steps:

Step 1) calculate the ratio of the original width / original height of Image.

Step 2) multiply the original_width/original_height ratio by the new desired height to get the new width corresponding to the new height.

Answer 2

If the image is proportionate then this code will fill the wrapper with image. If image is not in proportion then extra width/height will get cropped.

    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function(){
            $('#slider img').each(function(){
                var ReqWidth = 1000; // Max width for the image
                var ReqHeight = 300; // Max height for the image
                var width = $(this).width(); // Current image width
                var height = $(this).height(); // Current image height
                // Check if the current width is larger than the max
                if (width > height && height < ReqHeight) {

                    $(this).css("min-height", ReqHeight); // Set new height
                }
                else 
                    if (width > height && width < ReqWidth) {

                        $(this).css("min-width", ReqWidth); // Set new width
                    }
                    else 
                        if (width > height && width > ReqWidth) {

                            $(this).css("max-width", ReqWidth); // Set new width
                        }
                        else 
                            (height > width && width < ReqWidth)
                {

                    $(this).css("min-width", ReqWidth); // Set new width
                }
            });
        });
    </script>

Answer 3

Here's a correction to Mehdiway's answer. The new width and/or height were not being set to the max value. A good test case is the following (1768 x 1075 pixels): http://spacecoastsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sportsballs1.png. (I wasn't able to comment on it above due to lack of reputation points.)

  // Make sure image doesn't exceed 100x100 pixels
  // note: takes jQuery img object not HTML: so width is a function
  // not a property.
  function resize_image (image) {
      var maxWidth = 100;           // Max width for the image
      var maxHeight = 100;          // Max height for the image
      var ratio = 0;                // Used for aspect ratio

      // Get current dimensions
      var width = image.width()
      var height = image.height(); 
      console.log("dimensions: " + width + "x" + height);

      // If the current width is larger than the max, scale height
      // to ratio of max width to current and then set width to max.
      if (width > maxWidth) {
          console.log("Shrinking width (and scaling height)")
          ratio = maxWidth / width;
          height = height * ratio;
          width = maxWidth;
          image.css("width", width);
          image.css("height", height);
          console.log("new dimensions: " + width + "x" + height);
      }

      // If the current height is larger than the max, scale width
      // to ratio of max height to current and then set height to max.
      if (height > maxHeight) {
          console.log("Shrinking height (and scaling width)")
          ratio = maxHeight / height;
          width = width * ratio;
          height = maxHeight;
          image.css("width", width);
          image.css("height", height);
          console.log("new dimensions: " + width + "x" + height);
      }
  }

Answer 4

Resize to fit the container, get scale factor, scale down percentage control

 $(function () {
            let ParentHeight = 200;
            let ParentWidth = 300;
            $("#Parent").width(ParentWidth).height(ParentHeight);
            $("#ParentHeight").html(ParentHeight);
            $("#ParentWidth").html(ParentWidth);

            var RatioOfParent = ParentHeight / ParentWidth;
            $("#ParentAspectRatio").html(RatioOfParent);

            let ChildHeight = 2000;
            let ChildWidth = 4000;
            var RatioOfChild = ChildHeight / ChildWidth;
            $("#ChildAspectRatio").html(RatioOfChild);

            let ScaleHeight = ParentHeight / ChildHeight;
            let ScaleWidth = ParentWidth / ChildWidth;
            let Scale = Math.min(ScaleHeight, ScaleWidth);

            $("#ScaleFactor").html(Scale);
            // old scale
            //ChildHeight = ChildHeight * Scale;
            //ChildWidth = ChildWidth * Scale;

            // reduce scale by 10%, you can change the percentage
            let ScaleDownPercentage = 10;
            let CalculatedScaleValue = Scale * (ScaleDownPercentage / 100);
            $("#CalculatedScaleValue").html(CalculatedScaleValue);

            // new scale
            let NewScale = (Scale - CalculatedScaleValue);
            ChildHeight = ChildHeight * NewScale;
            ChildWidth = ChildWidth * NewScale;

            $("#Child").width(ChildWidth).height(ChildHeight);
            $("#ChildHeight").html(ChildHeight);
            $("#ChildWidth").html(ChildWidth);

        });

        #Parent {
            background-color: grey;
        }

        #Child {
            background-color: red;
        }
 

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="Parent">
    <div id="Child"></div>
</div>

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>Parent Aspect Ratio</td>
        <td id="ParentAspectRatio"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Child Aspect Ratio</td>
        <td id="ChildAspectRatio"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Scale Factor</td>
        <td id="ScaleFactor"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Calculated Scale Value</td>
        <td id="CalculatedScaleValue"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Parent Height</td>
        <td id="ParentHeight"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Parent Width</td>
        <td id="ParentWidth"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Child Height</td>
        <td id="ChildHeight"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Child Width</td>
        <td id="ChildWidth"></td>
    </tr>
</table>

Answer 5

This totally worked for me for a draggable item - aspectRatio:true

.appendTo(divwrapper).resizable({
    aspectRatio: true,
    handles: 'se',
    stop: resizestop 
})

Answer 6

actually i have just run into this problem and the solution I found was strangely simple and weird

$("#someimage").css({height:<some new height>})

and miraculously the image is resized to the new height and conserving the same ratio!