The SMIL Tutorial - Layout - Make your medium meet its area

Chapter 3. Layout - screen 14 of 17

Make your medium meet its area

Now, you can also make your media grow -without any distortion- until it meets the region frontier.

Set the fit attribute to "meet" in your <region> tag.

<smil>
 <head>
  <layout>
   <root-layout width="147" height="116" background-color="yellow" />
   <region id="region_1" left="8" top="10" width="116" height="81"
           background-color="white" fit="meet" />
  </layout>
 </head>
 <body>
  <!-- this image is smaller than its region -->
  <img src="madewithcss.gif" region="region_1" />
 </body>
</smil>

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