Keeping an image centered, while maintaining 100% height and only extending/cropping the sides

Question

The Problem

I have a user image, which I want to scale up and down with the window so that the height is always 100% and the image stays centered.

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Example 1

This example scales as the window is resized, but the height doesn't stay at 100% and therefore gets cut off at the bottom.

.user {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    object-fit: cover;
    object-position: 50% 0%;
}

CodePen Example 1

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Example 2

This example works perfectly, apart from when the width of the browser window is smaller than the width of the image, the right-hand side is cut off.

I do want the image to be cropped, but I want the right and left sides to be cropped equally.

.user {
    object-position: center;
    display: block;
    height: 100%;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}

CodePen Example 2

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Visual Example

Here is an example of how I want the images to appear when the browser is scaled horizontally/vertically.

Answer 1

An idea is to use multiple background like this:

I used multiple div to illustrate with different sizes

body,
html {
  height: 100vh;
  margin: 0;
}

.bg-shine {
  background-position: center;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: auto 100%, cover;
  background-image: url("https://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/paomedia/small-n-flat/512/user-male-icon.png"), url("https://t.motionelements.com/stock-video/design-elements/me1656952-blue-sunrise-background-hd-a0120-poster.jpg");
}

<div style="display: inline-block;">
  <div class="bg-shine" style="height:100px;width:400px;">

  </div>
  <div class="bg-shine" style="height:100px;width:200px;">

  </div>
</div>
<div style="display: inline-block;">
  <div class="bg-shine" style="height:200px;width:100px;">

  </div>
</div>

Update

To avoid using the image within CSS you can consider the inline style and a separate div for the user image so that you have almost the same markup as using an image tag:

body,
html {
  height: 100vh;
  margin: 0;
}

.bg-shine {
  background-position: center;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: cover;
  background-image: url("https://t.motionelements.com/stock-video/design-elements/me1656952-blue-sunrise-background-hd-a0120-poster.jpg");
}

.bg-shine>div {
  background-size: auto 100%;
  background-position: center;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  height:100%;
}

<div style="display: inline-block;">
  <div class="bg-shine" style="height:100px;width:400px;">
    <div style="background-image:url('https://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/paomedia/small-n-flat/512/user-male-icon.png')"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="bg-shine" style="height:100px;width:200px;">
    <div style="background-image:url('https://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/paomedia/small-n-flat/512/user-male-icon.png')"></div>
  </div>
</div>
<div style="display: inline-block;">
  <div class="bg-shine" style="height:200px;width:100px;">
    <div style="background-image:url('https://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/paomedia/small-n-flat/512/user-male-icon.png')"></div>
  </div>
</div>