Scale image to fit a bounding box

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Thanks to CSS3 there is a solution !

The solution is to put the image as background-image and then set the background-size to contain.

HTML

<div class="bounding-box">
</div>

CSS

.bounding-box {
  background-image: url(...);
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: contain;
}

Test it here: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/playit.asp?filename=playcss_background-size&preval=contain

Full compatibility with latest browsers: http://caniuse.com/background-img-opts

To align the div in the center, you can use this variation:

.bounding-box {
  background-image: url(...);
  background-size: contain;
  position: absolute;
  background-position: center;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  height: 100%;
  width: 100%;
}

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