Fixed size of Flexslider

Question

I'm using Flexslider to pull product images of varying sizes from an API. I've been throwing them into Flexslider's <ul>, but these varying image sizes don't play well. Flexslider nicely animates when images have different heights, but I want to have Flexslider have a fixed height and width to fit in my layout. I've tried putting the whole thing into a fixed-size <div>, but Flexslider ignores it completely and overflows into the rest of the layout. Is there some way to resize images to fit so that Flexslider doesn't resize?

Answer 1

Let's say you wanted a fixed size of 200px by 200px. Add these properties to the following selectors in the flexslider.css file and you should be good to go:

.flexslider {
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
}

.flexslider .slides img {
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
}

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

The element with the class ".flex-viewport" is the container of the slides, that element adapt his height to the taller image in the set, the trick is set all images height's to 0 except the one that is in the current slide which is inside the li element with the class ".flex-active-slide" that flexslider script toggle when slides exchange positions, the only bad thing about this trick is that the toggle of the class occurs after the new slide is put in the new position then a stutter occurs, but you can deal with that by using some javascript binding some toggleClass to the same event that trigger the slide change, help to be helpful.

.flex-viewport  li:not(.flex-active-slide) img{ 

height: 0 !important;
}