diff --git a/browser/components/MarkdownPreview.js b/browser/components/MarkdownPreview.js
index 94cbede0..4a9f6392 100755
--- a/browser/components/MarkdownPreview.js
+++ b/browser/components/MarkdownPreview.js
@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ export default class MarkdownPreview extends React.Component {
     this.saveAsHtmlHandler = () => this.handleSaveAsHtml()
     this.saveAsPdfHandler = () => this.handleSaveAsPdf()
     this.printHandler = () => this.handlePrint()
+    this.resizeHandler = _.throttle(this.handleResize.bind(this), 100)
 
     this.linkClickHandler = this.handleLinkClick.bind(this)
     this.initMarkdown = this.initMarkdown.bind(this)
@@ -540,6 +541,10 @@ export default class MarkdownPreview extends React.Component {
       'scroll',
       this.scrollHandler
     )
+    this.refs.root.contentWindow.addEventListener(
+      'resize',
+      this.resizeHandler
+    )
     eventEmitter.on('export:save-text', this.saveAsTextHandler)
     eventEmitter.on('export:save-md', this.saveAsMdHandler)
     eventEmitter.on('export:save-html', this.saveAsHtmlHandler)
@@ -578,6 +583,10 @@ export default class MarkdownPreview extends React.Component {
       'scroll',
       this.scrollHandler
     )
+    this.refs.root.contentWindow.removeEventListener(
+      'resize',
+      this.resizeHandler
+    )
     eventEmitter.off('export:save-text', this.saveAsTextHandler)
     eventEmitter.off('export:save-md', this.saveAsMdHandler)
     eventEmitter.off('export:save-html', this.saveAsHtmlHandler)
@@ -997,6 +1006,15 @@ export default class MarkdownPreview extends React.Component {
     }
   }
 
+  handleResize () {
+    _.forEach(
+      this.refs.root.contentWindow.document.querySelectorAll('svg[ratio]'),
+      el => {
+        el.setAttribute('height', el.clientWidth / el.getAttribute('ratio'))
+      }
+    )
+  }
+
   focus () {
     this.refs.root.focus()
   }
diff --git a/browser/components/markdown.styl b/browser/components/markdown.styl
index 692f5074..61939a64 100644
--- a/browser/components/markdown.styl
+++ b/browser/components/markdown.styl
@@ -427,6 +427,9 @@ pre.fence
     canvas, svg
       max-width 100% !important
 
+    svg[ratio]
+      width 100%
+
   .gallery
     width 100%
     height 50vh
diff --git a/browser/components/render/MermaidRender.js b/browser/components/render/MermaidRender.js
index d9ea549b..2b1e8b71 100644
--- a/browser/components/render/MermaidRender.js
+++ b/browser/components/render/MermaidRender.js
@@ -22,18 +22,40 @@ function getId () {
 function render (element, content, theme, enableHTMLLabel) {
   try {
     const height = element.attributes.getNamedItem('data-height')
-    if (height && height.value !== 'undefined') {
+    const isPredefined = height && height.value !== 'undefined'
+    if (isPredefined) {
       element.style.height = height.value + 'vh'
     }
     const isDarkTheme = theme === 'dark' || theme === 'solarized-dark' || theme === 'monokai' || theme === 'dracula'
     mermaidAPI.initialize({
       theme: isDarkTheme ? 'dark' : 'default',
       themeCSS: isDarkTheme ? darkThemeStyling : '',
-      useMaxWidth: false,
-      flowchart: { htmlLabels: enableHTMLLabel }
+      flowchart: {
+        htmlLabels: enableHTMLLabel
+      },
+      gantt: {
+        useWidth: element.clientWidth
+      }
     })
     mermaidAPI.render(getId(), content, (svgGraph) => {
       element.innerHTML = svgGraph
+
+      if (!isPredefined) {
+        const el = element.firstChild
+        const viewBox = el.getAttribute('viewBox').split(' ')
+
+        let ratio = viewBox[2] / viewBox[3]
+
+        if (el.style.maxWidth) {
+          const maxWidth = parseFloat(el.style.maxWidth)
+
+          ratio *= el.parentNode.clientWidth / maxWidth
+        }
+
+        el.setAttribute('ratio', ratio)
+        el.setAttribute('height', el.parentNode.clientWidth / ratio)
+        console.log(el)
+      }
     })
   } catch (e) {
     element.className = 'mermaid-error'