yang-wei / fullscreen.css. I know… it’s not ‘pure’, but it does the trick so well…. When I scrolled it out of view and then went back to the top of the page the background either disappeared or was split into sections. I even tested it out with EW3 and it works there…any ideas? If you have important information to share, please, http://img29.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=chromeq.jpg, https://css-tricks.com/how-to-resizeable-background-image/, http://www.cssplay.co.uk/layouts/background.html, http://blog.urbanmainframe.com/2009/05/create-a-dynamically-resizing-background-image-using-css/, http://www.brentwoodrestaurant.com/bg_test.html, http://buildinternet.com/project/supersized/, http://srobbin.com/blog/jquery-plugins/jquery-backstretch/#demo, http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRd66tQRZBspVVECmBHu4pMluIer0Zl6lhzcfd-75xlp-_kIus2, https://www.dropbox.com/s/7je5f19vxp9bwxb/iebug.png, Dat bunny (today working better than ever before, Opera 10+ (Opera 9.5 supported background-size but not the keywords), Firefox 3.6+ (Firefox 4 supports non-vendor prefixed version), Any version of good browsers: Safari / Chrome / Opera / Firefox, IE 6: Borked – but probably fixable if you use some kind of fixed positioning shim, IE 7/8: Mostly works, doesn’t center at small sizes but fills screen fine, Safari / Chrome / Firefox (didn’t test very far back, but recent versions are fine). This post was originally published on August 21, 2009 and is now updated as it has been, This comment thread is closed. Always cool to see techniques “in the wild.”. Google/Microsoft combat blows? Note that screen width isn’t the only possible good information to have when choosing an image size. Not working. Thanks for your article. With min-height:640px and min-width:1024px for a 2560×1600 pic it fits almost any resolution/window size decently… *hiding*, Try top:0px;bottom:0px;left:auto;right:auto. The background of any page or element plays a crucial role in setting the theme of the content within it as well as shifting the focus to or highlighting the foreground. the following does not work: function changeBg(source){ Let's consider a large image, a 2982x2808 Firefox logo image. I use supersize 2.0 for the same effect (also has transition). http://connerftw.tumblr.com/ Rotating and skewing elements with stunning backgrounds will now be a breeze! Inherits this property from its parent element. I got it working but am having issues with the height cutting off on the iPhone. left:25%; There’s some funkyness when the browser gets really short in technique 1. To do this, we can use a fixed background-sizevalue of 150 pixels. Looks perfect on my 1440px wide screen, but I’ve also tested it on a 1920px wide one and it looks completely acceptable this way. Anyhoo… we suspect they know more than us. I usually try to keep them below 200kb to avoid having a larger page weight. I suppose it’s a focus problem; anyway for accessibility it would be better to have the focus on the center element. But what if we only wish to set the opacity on the background color whilst keeping the content (such as text and images) opaque? However, this doesn’t center the image and that’s a pretty common desire here… So, we can fix that by wrapping the image in a div. Please, drop me a line if you have found a solution. Anyone had an issue with this and come up with a solution? You need to add #bg {z-index: -10} or anything else lower than other elements you have on the page. Get code examples like "css background image cover center" instantly right from your google search results with the Grepper Chrome Extension. However, because this can distort the image on larger screens, I want to be able to make the background image cover the width and height of the div container that it's in, rather than the width of the whole screen. I used it here. I want it to be one image as the entire background. IE8 is used throughout the company so it was essential it got dealt with tested also in IE Tester. Sure, divs are purposely designed for layout. Awesome post, thanks for the tutorial and code. Then instead of loading an img, you’d load a shim. Examples might be simplified to improve reading and learning. I implemented it here : http://www.cadranhotel.com/. The background property of CSS is used to define the background effects for elements. I’ve tried both techniques, by the way. In CSS-Only Technique #2 right styles for image should be: The CSS background-size property can have the value of cover. Greatly appreciated. } margin: 0px; Let’s put some specifics on it: We can do this purely through CSS thanks to the background-size property now in CSS3. The cover value tells the browser to automatically and proportionally scale the background image’s width and height so that they are always equal to, or greater than, the viewport’s width/height. Seems to work well, thanks :-). I ran onto a problem and I would like to ask for help. Nice work Chris, Full page backgrounds are something that I have always been intrigued by, but never really got my head around, due to different image dimensions, screen resolutions etc. BUT! The related posts above were algorithmically generated and displayed here without any load on our servers at all, thanks to Jetpack. In the following example, as a background-size value, we use “cover”, which scales the background image as much as possible so … Nice follow up to the previous article. Learn how to create a full screen video background that covers the entire browser window: swf file can be less than 15kb (compressed). … Thanks for the prompt response. I will us it in some of my upcoming projects :). Many mobile browser doesn’t support position fixed, though. 2) Oh, and at the same time, using Safari, Chrome or IE, Mac or PC, your comments in this comment section overlap, so not readable, sadly. Use my code above and make something like this: It dosnt matter how you change the Class. I take it you’d run this on $(window).resize(), not $(document).ready()? But it’s just tiled like 20 times. Tip: Use 50% to create a half page background image. double resolution), Tested in Firefox 25, Chrome 31 and IE 7, 8, 9, 10, Credits to this article and retina.js for the (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio : 1.5) solution, $image_p : '../images/' + $image_path + '/', this depends on your CSS location. I use this >>> One question, why use a table? padding: 0px; I do get whitespace on the top and bottom if the browser is taller than wider of the image proportions. First, identify what element you want to give a background image to. Wow, did not know about that CSS3 property, that will be amazing for the future. As usual around here, I like to lean on jQuery. Got a quick question however, which probably isn’t the right place to post it but you never know: anyone have a solution to make these backgrounds random? For that, use the CSS background and background-size properties. :D must have kids. any ideas? The background image is automatically resized to cover the entire background of the div. Is there a finite version for older versions of IE, or some special script I can implement to make the background wallpaper more stable? It works beautifully in every other browser, but I get the broken image logo on IE. This is called a shorthand property. One thing I have found, though, is that older IEs (IE6 and 7) sometimes crash if you’re using filters excessively. image-rendering: optimizeQuality; /* Gecko */ In JS-disabled browsers, a 1280px wide image will probably look decent, in all other browsers there will be a perfect image with no (or as little as possible) upscaling while wasting as little bandwidth as possible. Too bad…. I generally load a standard image of 1280px as background and overload a bigger one in Ajax if the screen is wider. I will describe it here and hopefully someone can confirm the glitch and see if there is any solution or if it is a glitch of the cover value in background-size property. I love Joe’s solution and use it all the time and think that you could incorporate it into this idea with great effect. CSS3 cover does a good job of proportionally filling the background with the image. it doesn’t work in opera The background of my Tumblr page. Thanks, I had to tackle this problem myself recently and have come up with a fairly decent solution that is standards-compliant, uses minimal code (just one extra div), doesn’t use flash and seems to work in all browsers. Supersized (http://buildinternet.com/project/supersized/) works very well and can be tweaked to allow for content with scroll. right:0; Without it / With it. I then found another approach which works as far as I can tell in all browsers, does not use JS or Flash and answered my requirements. That div we’ll make twice as big as the browser window. if(theWindow.width() != $bg.width()) Credit to Corey Worrell for the concept on this one. Thank you so much. [Here is a Dropbox link with screenshot of this. try it on this page, or google news, or where ever. This code will account for that. Multiple Background Images; CSS3 contains three new background properties: background-size, background-origin, background-clip, also you can add multiple background images to an element and create gradients with linear-gradient. Agreed. tables … geeze …. 1. Nice work, jQuery works fine on IE7 and FF3.6. I modified the code below based on the Juliana Bicycles website and it works perfectly. background-repeat: no-repeat; Update January 2018: Trying to get this to work on Android? 0. In the demo, in IE8 at least, the mousewheel only scrolls the content when the cursor is inside the white text container, and it’s somewhat sluggish at large resolutions. 3. If I remove the filter code, all of the links become clickable again but obviously there isn’t a background anymore. Oh, I think that’s almost the definition of hate, isn’t it?
4. There are no empty spaces. If you just mousewheel scroll it, you would see white space all around. -moz-background-size: cover; Nice effect Chris, I’ll definately get some use out of this one. I’m photographer and sometimes I use to develop some photography websites, as former graphic designer. max-height: auto; Thank you! But its JS was conflicting with other elements and I did not like the fact that the image could not fade in nicely all the time. They showed one here – http://ringvemedia.com/introduction. any help is appreciated. Yet, frankly I’m hesitate to apply the technique into my site. i don’t know how to reach the html-tag. maybe overflow-y:scroll; for the body or html can solve the problem.. visiting.. Nice info.. Cmon IE, be the best browser… Im so dissapointed with IE, there’re many bugs there. Table is perfect fine because its only holding a image. Because the browser may stretch the image, you should use a background image that has high enough resolution. We have access to this information through JavaScript. I love how css3 is getting better and better… The cover value tells the browser to automatically and proportionally scale the background image’s width and height so that they are always equal to, or greater than, the viewport’s width/height. Indeed, then you see white space you don’t want to be visible. The default keyword — auto— tells the b… Sorry, got it working. if(theWindow.height() != $bg.height()) This was just what I needed for my latest project! the image (height becomes "auto"), the two-value syntax (first value: width of
I’d also suggest to include some image rendering properties for smoother results: The best way to stretch an image to fit the background of an element is to use the CSS3 property, for background-size, and set it equal to cover. What are the earliest inventions to store and release energy (e.g. :D Without it the scrollnig did not function in any of browsers. <3. Learning xhtml from the start I am not very table savvy ;), Hmm, it’s nice in theory, but current browsers seem to be rather laggy on resize and scroll – And unless you use a high resolution image, chances are you’re going to see very unprofessional artifacts. The list of background-size values. But adding some trick… below is my code. Can do it with two: top and repeating one but with free no. THX. On the Demo, when the window is less then 1125px wide there IS white space on top and bottom. So what about the video? nice tips. This seemed to work fine for me: Supersized, This reminds me of the new WPC2 system I just recently created. Unless otherwise specified, I sincerely doubt that a client or employer would care – I haven’t come across one. I think this space is more likely to appear on a user’s screen then when there is white when the window is bigger then 2560px (with a big image and overflow:hidden) – the latter is not the case in this demo, but is here. Just perfect ;) thank you!! EDITOR’S NOTE: The above code is updated to fix this. html, body, #bg, #bg table, #bg td, #cont { So it means… javascript. filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader. Can anyone please tell me what is the minimum safest header background image size for a html/ wordpress theme? The latest Opera looks fine to me, but indeed there is a bug in Chrome (mac). 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