Overflow: hidden is not working with images

Question

I have this CSS code:

#portrait{
  height: 300px;
  width: 550px;
  border: solid;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: auto;
  word-wrap:break-word;
  overflow:hidden;
}
.image{
  float:left;
  height: 30%;
  border:solid 1px;
  padding: 1px;
  posit ion:relative;
}

and the html:

<div id="portrait">
<img class="image" src="http://media.indiatimes.in/media/photogallery/2012/Dec/best_images_of_2012_1355117665_1355117684.jpg"/>
<!--Can't pull all images in here because it thinks my question is spam-->
<img class="image" src="http://adrao.com.sapo.pt/soajo_sol.jpg"/>
<img class="image" src="http://www.befrielsen1945.dk/temaer/internationalt/krigensgang/kilder/ofre.jpg"/>
<img class="image" src="http://ionenewsone.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/oj-simpson-smiling-murder-trial.jpg"/>
<img class="image" src="http://images.nymag.com/images/2/daily/2009/10/20091006_gossipgirl_560x375.jpg"/> 
<img class="image" src="http://images.nymag.com/images/2/daily/2009/10/20091006_gossipgirl_560x375.jpg"/>
</div>

What I want to do is to make the image overflow in the x-axis hidden (instead of the first blonde woman being on the second row I want her to be cropped as necessary but yet remain on the first row and so on). When I do overflow-x hidden it won't work. Any thoughts on this one?

Answer 1

Since #portrait is not allowed to overflow the images then you need one additional container with the specified width that will hold these the images inside. Do it like this:

<div id="portrait">
    <div id="wrapper">
        your images
...

And then apply

#wrapper{
    height:30%;
    overflow:hidden;
    width: 1000px; /* it is only important to be bigger then parent for one image width size */
}

.image{
  height: 100%;

Answer 2

I had a problem where my video disappeared when I used overflow hidden. Turned out I needed to set the width of the container and not only the height. And I didn't have to use any positioning on the container.