how to prevent img from stretching its parent

Question

I'm using markdown language to add posts to the site. So, in order to add image to my post I write

![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg) 

and img appears on the page. There's one problem though - images stretch its parent div if original width of the image exceeds container's width. I use fixed layout so width of container element is hardcoded in css. The Question is: is it even possible to prevent images from stretch my div but instead resize automatically to fit nicely into it?

Answer 1

is it even possible to prevent images from stretch my div but instead resize automatically to fit nicely into it?

Yes! Try setting:

img { max-width: 100%; }

As long as the <img>'s container has an explicit width, the image shouldn't exceed that width.