I'm using HTML5's <picture> tags to create a responsive header that will stretch the entire width of the browser. The header uses an image as the background.
For larger screens I limited the height to a defined value. However, I noticed that a certain breakpoint the image starts to stretch and distort the image.
I'm familiar with using CSS's background-image: url(); to create a mask in order to prevent the distortion, but I don't know what best practices are with <picture>.
My code currently stretches and distorts the image. Is there a way to 'mask' the image?
First thing you should know is that if you will give height to any image then in some screens it will stretch.
So instead of giving the height you should take the image of exact size it will do the thing.
If you can share the code I can fix it and send it to you.
Hope it helps.
User zgood was able to lead me in the right direction. Adding object-fit: cover to the <picture>'s <img> tag got the job done.
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I'm working on a website. There's one problem. The slider won't fit in the frame without stretching.
Slider Image is full width of screen and i have defined height for it.
In CSS part i have applied object-fit: cover but this crop my image
I hope you guys can help me out on this. I'd tried alot and also asked some other people but they can't help me with this.
Or Should i restrict my client to use image of that resolution only?
Yes Mostly you should restrict the client from using different ratios, or resolutions, because you are using the full width aaaaand defined height, defined height is very limiting in your case, what you can do is use
object-fit:cover;
object-fit:center;
but that doesn't stop the cropping it will just focus on the center of the image when cropping.
I have the following:
<div style="container;background-image:url('/images/football.jpg');background-size:100% 100%;">
I would like to manually adjust the width and height of the image. I currently have it covering the full width of the div, but not the full height. Is there a way to manually adjust the size in percentage form while maintaining no-repeat of image.
As mentioned
"background-size:"
Is what you are after however I thought I'd just add a little bit of helpful advice and point you towards W3schools.
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_background-size.asp
I only recently got through web development at Uni and W3schools was the single most useful source of information I had access to (don't tell my lecturer that). If you get in the habit of looking there first it'll help you out a bunch.
Also might be worth learning how to use external style sheets and linking them into your HTML.
Hope this helps !
background-size: 100%;
will adjust the image proportionally to 100% width of the background area.
If your image size is less then background area then use
background-size:cover;
to stretch it so that the background area is completely covered by the background image.
If your image size is greator then background area then use
background-size:contain;
to shrink it so that the background image is completely fit in the background area.
I admit in the beginning that I am new to UI development and started learning recently. I am developing a website which i similar to InuitLabs.com. When I looked at the source code using view source I am totally lost. Particularly I am interested in knowing
How the slider image on the homepage is responsive? Is it through javascript or using pure css.
Also I want to know the text moves upwards on scrolling leaving behind the background image intact? How to achieve the same effect.
I know this might be the basic question but I found it hard to know through the source code as there are many javascript and css files.
Regards,
Pradeep
Take a look at the background-size property.
you can set background-size to any px or % value or use constants:
cover will adjust the image size to fill the entire container while contain try to fit the image inside the container without cropping it, most likely leaving some parts of the container without any background.
What you probably want is to set your background-size property to cover.
you just set the image to the percent you want in % through css for example:
.slider img {
width:100%;
}
edit: also you need to specify the height as auto, if you do not want to lose the image ratio. if you set width and height at 100% the image ratio will be messed up.
if you want to set responsive height also for longer device then use width:100%; and height:100%; other wise you can use height:auto; make div and keep it background-size property for it.
I'm trying to make a page that can scale down to support small browsers, but take advantage of the majority of browser sizes that most visitors are using.
I have a background image that is bigger than 1024x728, but the most important parts of the image are contained within 1024x728... It's like a magazine's bleed - there's extra image there if its needed (and it looks better if fully expanded) but it's not necessary.
I have included an example to illustrate what I mean:
http://tinypic.com/r/24l5she/7
The "background image" is the entire red box in the larger browser window, and there's a repeating texture it sits within (the blue). The "white box with red arrows" is the "minimum size" I want to accept. What I am trying to do, depending on the size of the user's browser, is cut out parts of the image until the browser reaches some specific minimum size.
Can this be done within a framework like 960.gs?
Really looking forward to your responses!
Cheers,
Put your page in a fixed-width wrapper div, then add a centered background-image to the body tag.
With CSS3's background-size property, you can force the image to stay a constant size. Then it's just a matter of a no-repeat center center bit in your background declaration.
div {
background: url('yourpic.jpg') no-repeat center center;
background-size: 1024px 768px
}
You didn't really want to support IE<=8, did you?
Not an answer but more of a food for thought...
Seeing as your background image is so large, you may want to just remove it from mobile devices. While most of them can handle it, it's just extra data that needs to be transferred and most mobile carriers have strict data limits.
Like I said, just something to consider. :)
I'm working on a website with a em-based layout (so it can stretch and compress gracefully when users increase or decrease font size). This site has a header that should be displayed across all pages. I have a "header" div in all pages, and the site-wide css file includes the code:
#header
{
width: 50em;
height: 6em;
margin-bottom: .5em;
background: url("/IMAGES/header.png");
}
The problem is that this doesn't really stretch gracefully. When text size increase, the height and width change, but **the image doesn't increase in size; it simply repeats*.*
How can I make my image stretch and squish, instead of repeating or getting cut off? (I'd like a css-based solution if possible... I've got some html ideas in store, already).
There is no way to use css to strech a background image. You would have to use javascript or something similar. However, if you have an image that doesn't need to be repeated (e.g. blends into the background), you could do something like this:
background-position: center center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
Addendum: The position has the following format: <top|center|bottom|xpos> <left|center|right|ypos>
where xpos and ypos can be given in the regular fashion (em, px, %, etc...).
The only way I've ever found is:
Set background of #header to bgcolor of header image.
Place new div inside #header
Split header image into 2
Set left half of new image as #header background aligned-left
Set right half of new image as #header.div background aligned-right
Of course that's only going to work with appropriate images though.
I'm pretty sure you can't change the scaling of background images. If your header.png file was included as an img tag, then you could set its height and width to be a number of ems and the browser would resize it (usually making it look like crap though).
Remember as well that pretty much all the modern browsers do page zooming these days, which will scale everything up without changing your layout too much. Perhaps tell your users to use that feature?
#Pianosaurus, I think your idea may be the simplest, although limited. Simply, don't stretch the image, but make sure it looks good when it's not stretched (center it, and don't let it repeat). Also, if you use a fair amount of padding at the edges of your header image, sizing the page down wouldn't cause such big problems, either.