object-fit-polyfill

A polyfill for browsers that don't support the object-fit CSS property. Unsure of what the object-fit does? Essentially object-fit is to <img> tags what background-size is to background-image. You can check out the MDN page for more details.

Features

• Lightweight - 2.6KB (1.8KB with the basic version)
• Vanilla Javascript - works with or without jQuery
• Supports IE 9+, iOS 7-, and Android 4.4-
• Supports object-position
• Works with image, video, srcset, and picture
• Plug and play - just include the .js file and set data attributes on your elements.
• Please note: This plugin makes the assumption that the parent container is acting as a picture frame, and already has a height & width set.

Demo

You can check out the bare-bones demo here. Note that the plugin simply won't do anything if you're on a browser that already supports object-fit, so you'll want to test it on IE or older iOS/Android browsers.

How does it work?

Unlike object-fit-images or Primož Cigler's method (both excellent alternatives if you'd rather not use this one), this polyfill does not set a background image on the parent container, but instead resizes and repositions the image (using inline CSS for height, width, absolute positioning, and negative margins).

If you're wondering: why bother using <img> tags versus background-image? Here's a couple reasons:

1. <img> tags have better SEO/crawling visibility.
2. In cases where images are dynamically returned and can't simply be added to your stylesheets (e.g., CMS's), you're forced to inline your background-image. This solves that somewhat-ugly-looking inline CSS.
3. background-image doesn't work with video or picture elements.

Of course, there's still plenty of cases where using a background image makes more sense than a regular image.

Usage

Initialization:

<!-- Minimum CSS -->
<style>
.container {
  width: 25em; /* Or whatever you want it to be */
  height: 25em; /* Or whatever you want it to be */
}
.media {
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  object-fit: cover; /* Or whatever object-fit you want */
}
</style>

<!-- Minimum HTML -->
<div class="container">
  <img class="media" data-object-fit="cover" src="https://unsplash.it/800/600/" alt="">
</div>

<script src="dist/objectFitPolyfill.min.js"></script>

Customized object-fit/object-position:

<div class="container">
  <img class="media" data-object-fit="contain" data-object-position="top left" src="https://unsplash.it/800/600/" alt="">
</div>

<div class="container">
  <img class="media" data-object-fit="none" data-object-position="25% 75%" src="https://unsplash.it/800/600/" alt="">
</div>

<div class="container">
  <img class="media" data-object-fit="scale-down" data-object-position="3em -1em" src="https://unsplash.it/800/600/" alt="">
</div>

If you're only interested in using the basic polyfill (which assumes object-fit: cover and object-position: 50% 50%), you can save yourself some bytes by using:

<div class="container">
	<img class="media" data-object-fit src="https://unsplash.it/800/600/" alt="">
</div>

<script src="dist/objectFitPolyfill.basic.min.js"></script>

Requests?

If you'd like to make feature requests such as IE 8- or adding object-position support for Safari, feel free to open an issue or pull request! It's doable and on my radar, but I probably won't get to it without some prodding.