image-orientation

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since April 2020.

The image-orientation CSS property specifies a layout-independent correction to the orientation of an image.

Syntax

css

/* keyword values */
image-orientation: none;
image-orientation: from-image; /* Use EXIF data from the image */

/* Global values */
image-orientation: inherit;
image-orientation: initial;
image-orientation: revert;
image-orientation: revert-layer;
image-orientation: unset;

Values

none: Does not apply any additional image rotation; the image is oriented as encoded or as other CSS property values dictate.
from-image: Default initial value. The EXIF information contained in the image is used to rotate the image appropriately.

Warning: image-orientation: none; does not override the orientation of non-secure-origin images as encoded by their EXIF information, due to security concerns. Find out more from the CSS working group draft issue.

Description

This property is intended only to be used for the purpose of correcting the orientation of images which were shot with the camera rotated. It should not be used for arbitrary rotations. For any purpose other than correcting an image's orientation due to how it was shot or scanned, use a transform property with the rotate keyword to specify rotation. This includes any user-directed changes to the orientation of the image, or changes required for printing in portrait versus landscape orientation.

If used in conjunction with other CSS properties, such as a <transform-function>, any image-orientation rotation is applied before any other transformations.

Formal definition

Initial value	`from-image`
Applies to	all elements
Inherited	yes
Computed value	an `<angle>`, rounded to the next quarter turn from `0deg` and normalized, that is moduloing the value by `1turn`
Animation type	discrete

Formal syntax

image-orientation = 
  from-image           |
  none                 |
  [ <angle> || flip ]

Examples

Orienting image from image data

The following image has been rotated through 180 degrees, and the image-orientation property is used to correct its orientation based on the EXIF data in the image. By changing the image-orientation to none you can see the effect of the property.

CSS

css

#image {
  image-orientation: from-image; /* Can be changed in the live sample */
}

img {
  margin: 0.5rem 0;
}

label {
  font-family: monospace;
}

<img id="image" src="oriole.jpg" alt="Orientation taken from the image" />

<div>
  <input
    type="radio"
    id="from-image"
    name="orientation"
    value="from-image"
    checked />
  <label for="from-image">from-image</label>
</div>

<div>
  <input type="radio" id="none" name="orientation" value="none" />
  <label for="none">none</label>
</div>

document.addEventListener("change", (evt) => {
  document.getElementById("image").style.imageOrientation = evt.target.value;
});

Result

Specifications

Specification
CSS Images Module Level 3 # the-image-orientation

Browser compatibility

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