Question

I’m trying to get an image centered on the screen, and I want it to stretch horizontally.
The trick here is that I need set margins. Lets use 200px as an example.

The image needs to stretch horizontally (and possibly scale proportionally) to maintain those margins no matter the windows size.

I can center it, and I can stretch it, but I can’t do both at once for some reason.

Also, this needs to be CSS only! No JS.

Any help is greatly appreciated! 😀

P.S. I’ve seen ton of questions about scaling images with the window size, and this is not the same thing. I need set margins, in pixels, that stay constant, while the image between them stretches horizontally.

Answer 1

You could use two divs, the outer with the set margins, the inner with width set to 100%:

http://jsfiddle.net/tqmrY/4/

<div id="holder">
    <div></div>
</div>​

#holder {
    background: #333;
    height: 100px;
    margin: 0 100px;
}
#holder div {
        width: 100%;

}
​