[theme-reviewers] Regarding wide image overflow

[Chip Bennett]

In general, *content* needs to be contained within the *content area*. That
means that, however you choose to accomplish it, over-sized images need to
remain within the content area - unless your Theme is intentionally designed
to incorporate images overflowing into the sidebar area, i.e. as an integral
part of the Theme design.

Our usual recommendation is to combine max-width: <content-width> with
height:auto, which will allow the image to resize/scale itself in a way that
neither cuts off part of the image nor distorts the height-width
proportionality of the image.

Chip

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Syahir Hakim <khairulsyahir at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have one question about the wide image overflow requirement. Is it only
> required that the sidebar is not pushed down because of the wide image, or
> is it that we should never allow images to overflow the content area (i.e.
> overflow: hidden;). Using overflow:hidden has been causing lots of trouble
> with the layout for my theme (e.g. half-hidden title text, unwrapped
> paragraph around aligned images, etc), so I was hoping that maybe it is okay
> for the image to overflow behind the sidebar area, but not push it down
> (i.e. using set width or max-width on the content area).
>
> --
> Regards,
> Syahir Hakim
>
> Contact:
> http://www.khairul-syahir.com
> +6014 753 1883
>
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