This is the right place :) When you're using a Content block and you give the image just a width or just a height, but not both, the aspect ratio should be preserved. That's just the way the image attributes work in HTML. It's important to realize, though, that the resizing is taking place on your browser, so the large file has to get downloaded (slow).

The Image block actually resizes the image for you. You may also want to look into this free Add-on that combines an Image block with a Content block: http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/content-around-image/...

I saw a tutorial once on setting a large sized image to 100% width to fill the container. Then the height is set automatically. So if you wanted 50% wide the height might be set to keep the proportion correct. But I think not with pixels.

It would be a nice feature though.

Steve

I agree, you can't specify a percentage for pixels, but you can definitely do something like this: <img src="myimage.jpg" width="127" alt="" /> (note: no height specified) It's valid HTML (edit: XHTML) and the aspect ratio will be preserved. I do this sort of thing often when I'm playing with a layout. Then once I've decided on the size, I'll physically resize the file and specify both the width and the height.

hmmm... when I put 50% on the width dialogue box and left the height empty, it worked. Same when I put pixel size in one box only and cleared the other box - wonder why it didn't work for me before? maybe I assumed it would recalculate the other dimension... I agree about not using LARGE images for load times, but now I feel dorky - was sure that just loading one set of dimensions didn't work... but it does... hmmm...