Keeping an image centered, while maintaining 100% height and only extending/cropping the sides

Question

The Problem

I have a user image, which I want to scale up and down with the window so that the height is always 100% and the image stays centered.

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Example 1

This example scales as the window is resized, but the height doesn't stay at 100% and therefore gets cut off at the bottom.

.user {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    object-fit: cover;
    object-position: 50% 0%;
}

CodePen Example 1

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Example 2

This example works perfectly, apart from when the width of the browser window is smaller than the width of the image, the right-hand side is cut off.

I do want the image to be cropped, but I want the right and left sides to be cropped equally .

.user {
    object-position: center;
    display: block;
    height: 100%;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}

CodePen Example 2

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Visual Example

Here is an example of how I want the images to appear when the browser is scaled horizontally/vertically.

Answer 1

An idea is to use multiple background like this:

I used multiple div to illustrate with different sizes

 body, html { height: 100vh; margin: 0; } .bg-shine { background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto 100%, cover; background-image: url("https://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/paomedia/small-n-flat/512/user-male-icon.png"), url("https://t.motionelements.com/stock-video/design-elements/me1656952-blue-sunrise-background-hd-a0120-poster.jpg"); } 

 <div style="display: inline-block;"> <div class="bg-shine" style="height:100px;width:400px;"> </div> <div class="bg-shine" style="height:100px;width:200px;"> </div> </div> <div style="display: inline-block;"> <div class="bg-shine" style="height:200px;width:100px;"> </div> </div> 

Update

To avoid using the image within CSS you can consider the inline style and a separate div for the user image so that you have almost the same markup as using an image tag:

 body, html { height: 100vh; margin: 0; } .bg-shine { background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; background-image: url("https://t.motionelements.com/stock-video/design-elements/me1656952-blue-sunrise-background-hd-a0120-poster.jpg"); } .bg-shine>div { background-size: auto 100%; background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; height:100%; } 

 <div style="display: inline-block;"> <div class="bg-shine" style="height:100px;width:400px;"> <div style="background-image:url('https://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/paomedia/small-n-flat/512/user-male-icon.png')"></div> </div> <div class="bg-shine" style="height:100px;width:200px;"> <div style="background-image:url('https://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/paomedia/small-n-flat/512/user-male-icon.png')"></div> </div> </div> <div style="display: inline-block;"> <div class="bg-shine" style="height:200px;width:100px;"> <div style="background-image:url('https://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/paomedia/small-n-flat/512/user-male-icon.png')"></div> </div> </div> 

Answer 2

I like your question! I approached it from a different angle, and tried to use background rather than img element. Please see the results here:

https://codepen.io/Varin/pen/xYqXQe

 body, html { height: 100vh; margin: 0; } .bg-shine { height: 100vh; background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; background-image: url("http://t.motionelements.com/stock-video/design-elements/me1656952-blue-sunrise-background-hd-a0120-poster.jpg"); position: relative; } .image { padding:0; margin:0; width: 100%; height:100%; position:absolute; top:50%; left:50%; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); background-image:url('http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/paomedia/small-n-flat/512/user-male-icon.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center center; background-size: auto 100%; } 

  <div class="bg-shine"> <div class="image"> </div> </div>