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I've built this responsive site on WordPress and got a little curious as to how I can set the post thumbnails in percentages. Any help would be much appreciated.

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This is not possible, images must have real absolute sizes :)

A post thumbnail is essentially a different sized version of the image. While you can calculate how much for example 70% of 1024 is, and genereate a ~700px wide image, you cannot do this for each of your visitors. It would kill your host's CPU...

The closest thing you can do is to browser-resize images to fit their container:

img{
  max-width: 100%;
  height: auto;
}
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That's what I'm doing now, I was just really curious to see if that could be done with WordPress or not. Thanks for confirming this for me :) – Jamal_Jakson Apr 11 '12 at 13:01
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Follow up to @OneTrickPony A:

You could also use a background image, resize the container accordingly and then add background-size: contain;.

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Yeah, I thought of that but I wanted to see if doing it this way would possible. – Jamal_Jakson Apr 11 '12 at 14:28

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