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With this set, an image meant to be 5 inches wide at 300dpi will actually display as 5in wide; without this set, the image would display as approximately 15.6in wide since the image is 15000 image pixels across, and by default CSS displays 96 image pixels per inch.
Using the intrinsic dimensions, the specified size, and the default object size for the context the image or object is used in, CSS then computes a concrete object size. (See the following section.) This defines the size and position of the region the object will render in.