Title: responsive images with srcset/sizes – width attribute overwrite
Last modified: January 14, 2017

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# responsive images with srcset/sizes – width attribute overwrite

 *  [emsone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emsone/)
 * (@emsone)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-images-with-srcsetsizes-width-attribute-overwrite/)
 * Dear All!
 * Today I’ve learned about responsive image loading with srcset and sizes attributes
   in img tags. Awesome stuff 🙂 Implemented it right away in one of my pages. Now
   I’m running into the following problem:
 * srcset and sizes attributes are populated correctly thanks to add_image_size 
   and wp_calculate_image_sizes. But the img tags are also populated with width 
   and height attributes and these break the expected behavior: the images are displayed
   in the size specified by the width and height attributes. When removing the width
   and height attributes with javascript (oh bad!), everything works just fine. 
   I guess this is not the intended way to work this.
 * Anyone can point me in the right direction?
 * Thanks in advance
 * Much love
    Henry

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-images-with-srcsetsizes-width-attribute-overwrite/#post-8653698)
 * The width and height attributes are not a problem for responsiveness, they serve
   to define the image’s aspect ratio more than absolute size. It’s up to the theme
   to have an image behave responsively. Usually a CSS width of a particular percentage(
   often 100%) and a height of auto does the trick regardless of the height and 
   width attributes in the img tag.
 * All images inserted by WP in the default state include width and height attributes.
   They all behave responsively in all the default twenty* themes. If their presence
   affects responsiveness, there is something wrong with your theme. Try modifying
   the image CSS as mentioned above and see if that helps.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-images-with-srcsetsizes-width-attribute-overwrite/#post-8653698)
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