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

Have a look at this piece of code from http://ericjuden.com/2009/07/jquery-image-resize/

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('.story-small img').each(function() {
        var maxWidth = 100; // Max width for the image
        var maxHeight = 100;    // Max height for the image
        var ratio = 0;  // Used for aspect ratio
        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 > maxWidth){
            ratio = maxWidth / width;   // get ratio for scaling image
            $(this).css("width", maxWidth); // Set new width
            $(this).css("height", height * ratio);  // Scale height based on ratio
            height = height * ratio;    // Reset height to match scaled image
            width = width * ratio;    // Reset width to match scaled image
        }

        // Check if current height is larger than max
        if(height > maxHeight){
            ratio = maxHeight / height; // get ratio for scaling image
            $(this).css("height", maxHeight);   // Set new height
            $(this).css("width", width * ratio);    // Scale width based on ratio
            width = width * ratio;    // Reset width to match scaled image
            height = height * ratio;    // Reset height to match scaled image
        }
    });
});

Answer 2

$('#productThumb img').each(function() {
    var maxWidth = 140; // Max width for the image
    var maxHeight = 140;    // Max height for the image
    var ratio = 0;  // Used for aspect ratio
    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 = ( height / width ) * maxHeight;

    } else if(height > width){
        maxWidth = (width/height)* maxWidth;
    }
    $(this).css("width", maxWidth); // Set new width
    $(this).css("height", maxHeight);  // Scale height based on ratio
});

Answer 3

In order to determine the aspect ratio, you need to have a ratio to aim for.

function getHeight(length, ratio) {
  var height = ((length)/(Math.sqrt((Math.pow(ratio, 2)+1))));
  return Math.round(height);
}

function getWidth(length, ratio) {
  var width = ((length)/(Math.sqrt((1)/(Math.pow(ratio, 2)+1))));
  return Math.round(width);
}

In this example I use 16:10 since this the typical monitor aspect ratio.

var ratio = (16/10);
var height = getHeight(300,ratio);
var width = getWidth(height,ratio);

console.log(height);
console.log(width);

Results from above would be 147 and 300

Answer 4

After some trial and error I came to this solution:

function center(img) {
    var div = img.parentNode;
    var divW = parseInt(div.style.width);
    var divH = parseInt(div.style.height);
    var srcW = img.width;
    var srcH = img.height;
    var ratio = Math.min(divW/srcW, divH/srcH);
    var newW = img.width * ratio;
    var newH = img.height * ratio;
    img.style.width  = newW + "px";
    img.style.height = newH + "px";
    img.style.marginTop = (divH-newH)/2 + "px";
    img.style.marginLeft = (divW-newW)/2 + "px";
}

Answer 5

This should work for images with all possible proportions

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('.list img').each(function() {
        var maxWidth = 100;
        var maxHeight = 100;
        var width = $(this).width();
        var height = $(this).height();
        var ratioW = maxWidth / width;  // Width ratio
        var ratioH = maxHeight / height;  // Height ratio

        // If height ratio is bigger then we need to scale height
        if(ratioH > ratioW){
            $(this).css("width", maxWidth);
            $(this).css("height", height * ratioW);  // Scale height according to width ratio
        }
        else{ // otherwise we scale width
            $(this).css("height", maxHeight);
            $(this).css("width", height * ratioH);  // according to height ratio
        }
    });
});

Answer 6

Without additional temp-vars or brackets.

    var width= $(this).width(), height= $(this).height()
      , maxWidth=100, maxHeight= 100;

    if(width > maxWidth){
      height = Math.floor( maxWidth * height / width );
      width = maxWidth
      }
    if(height > maxHeight){
      width = Math.floor( maxHeight * width / height );
      height = maxHeight;
      }

Keep in Mind: Search engines don't like it, if width and height attribute does not fit the image, but they don't know JS.