How to set an image’s width and height without stretching it?

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Yes you need an encapsulating div:

<div id="logo"><img src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1733006/logo.jpg"></div>

with something like:

#logo { height: 100px; width: 200px; overflow: hidden; }

Other solutions (padding, margin) are more tedious (in that you need to calculate the right value based on the image’s dimensions) but also don’t effectively allow the container to be smaller than the image.

Also, the above can be adapted much more easily for different layouts. For example, if you want the image at the bottom right:

#logo { position: relative; height: 100px; width: 200px; }
#logo img { position: absolute; right: 0; bottom: 0; }

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