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Cropping images to a perfect circle

Cropping images to a perfect circle

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Cropping images to a perfect circle

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- [Instructor] Every time I demonstrate how to use border-radius to create rounded corners on an image, the very first question I get is, can I use this to create a perfect circle that is responsive? The answer is yes, but we have to employ that perfect square hack from the previous chapter to do so. You see, to create a responsive perfect circle, you have to set the border-radius to a percentage value. So if you want the circle to be perfect, you need to set it to 50% because that way each corner has a radius 50% the width or height of the box. The problem is if the image isn't square to begin with, you get this ellipsis, an oblong egg shape instead of a circle, which is not what you want. To fix this, we need to employ that technique that we covered earlier on in the course, the one where we hack the HTML and CSS to create a perfect square that's responsive. So I'll take border-radius away here, then I'll go and…

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