Multiple fixed backgrounds without background-attachment: fixed - html

I'm creating a simple website that is supposed to have a parallax-type effect. Originally it was using background-attachment: fixed;, however that's causing a repaint on each scroll, leading to some noticeable FPS drops.
Here is the desired effect, which in the real use-case, is causing slight stuttering:
body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#container,
#container2 {
background-size: cover;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center;
background-attachment: fixed;
height: 100vh;
}
#container {
background-image: url('http://fillmurray.com/1200/1200');
}
#container2 {
background-image: url('http://placekitten.com/1200/1200')
}
#more-content {
font-size: 48px;
padding: 35vh 0;
text-align: center;
background-color: white;
}
<div id="container"></div>
<div id="more-content">
Here's some more content
</div>
<div id="container2"></div>
As a work-around, I've created a div and applied a ::before pseudo-element that's position: fixed;, and I've set it into the background by doing z-index: -1;. I've added will-change: transform; to avoid repaint issues.
body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#container {
height: 100vh;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
}
#container::before {
content: ' ';
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
background-image: url("http://www.fillmurray.com/1000/1000");
background-size: cover;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
z-index: -1;
will-change: transform;
}
#more-content {
text-align: center;
font-size: 48px;
padding: 50vh 0px;
background-color: white;
}
<div id="container"></div>
<div id="more-content">
Here's some more content
</div>
The problem is introduced once I try and create a second fixed image, beneath the section that says "Here's some more content". Because position: fixed; takes the element out of the flow (despite its parent being position: relative), I can't figure out a method to incorporate the second image, preserving the "wipe" effect in my first example. Being that they occupy the same space, only one image shows.
I've seen a few people ask similar questions, though most were not recent, nor did they have any answers.
I'm open to suggestions, otherwise I'll be tasking myself with a JavaScript workaround.

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A background-image stretches the height of the div rather than being contained to the dimensions of the viewport. Testing on desktop the desired effect is achieved but on iPhone X (Safari and Chrome) the background stretches the height of the content so the image is 'zoomed in' and blurry.
So my phone is ignoring the combo of:
background-attachment: fixed;
background-position: top center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
I'm aware there has been issues with this in the past on iOS and I have searched SO for threads but I saw this working on https://mrleight.com/clip and I'm wondering how they got this to work - is JS maybe or something else I'm missing as my core CSS seems to more or less match.
I've included an simplified example, I've taken out all the 'real' content and just added a red div with a fixed height to simulate the effect my grid of content has.
I'd rather not resolve this by having a separate div with position: fixed - I see that as a last resort!
html,
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.page {
background: white;
}
.collection {
background-attachment: fixed;
background-position: top center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
display: block;
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
}
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background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .48);
content: "";
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
inset: 0;
width: 100%;
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flex-direction: column;
flex-wrap: nowrap;
height: 100%;
position: relative;
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height: 3000px;
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<!-- START COLLECTION -->
<div class="collection" style="background-image: url('https://images.pexels.com/photos/38136/pexels-photo-38136.jpeg')">
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Transparent overlay div layer breaking out of parent container?

Trying to build out a hero style masthead with a transparent cover image, and a color tint overlay; then display some text on top of this. I am using bootstrap 3 as underlying framework.
I have my hero wrapped in a div, I then have two child div. One contains the background tint layer, the other contains the text/title.
The background div layer is breaking out of the parent wrapper div and covering the entire viewport below it. I'm not sure where i went wrong.
Fiddle of my broken attempt:
Fiddle
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font-size: 2.2em;
padding: 20px 40px;
margin-bottom: 40px;
}
.bg-layer {
opacity: 0.75;
background-color: #f7f8fa;
position: absolute;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
top: 0;
left: 0;
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background-position: right center;
background-size: cover;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: scroll;
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<div class="bg-layer"></div>
<header id="page-title">
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About Us </div>
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Add high z-index on .bg-layer, beacuse bootstrap CSS navbar Class default z-index is 1000
.bg-layer {
opacity: 0.75;
background-color: #f7f8fa;
position: absolute;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
top: 0;
left: 0;
z-index:1001;;
}
https://jsfiddle.net/lalji1051/9b46x5yo/3/
All your code is absolutely fine, Just add this line position: relative;to the .bg-wraper class and you will get the desired result!
#page-title {
font-size: 2.2em;
padding: 20px 40px;
margin-bottom: 40px;
}
.bg-layer {
opacity: 0.75;
background-color: #f7f8fa;
background-color: #f005; /* just adding this for visibility*/
position: absolute;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
.bg-wrapper {
background-image: url(/whatever.png);
background-position: right center;
background-size: cover;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: scroll;
/*Just this additionale property*/
position: relative;
}
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<div class="bg-layer"></div>
<header id="page-title">
<div class="container">
About Us </div>
</header>
</div>

Optimization of scrolling performance with parallax effect

I have a page with two sections which are stacked over each other. The upper section has a background image with a fixed position to create a parallax effect. Because I had massive performance issues while scrolling I had to change the layout.
From this:
.upper-section {
height: 100vh;
background: url("./img/background.png") no-repeat fixed;
background-size: cover;
}
.lower-section {
height: 100vh;
...
}
to this:
.upper-section {
height: 100vh;
overflow: hidden; // added for pseudo-element
position: relative; // added for pseudo-element
&::before {
content: ' ';
display: block;
position: fixed; // instead of background-attachment
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
top: 0;
left: 0;
background: url("./img/background.png") no-repeat fixed;
background-size: cover;
will-change: transform; // creates a new paint layer
z-index: -1;
}
}
to put the background in it's own container. My problem is that i the background image container is not inheriting the height of the upper-section container and covers the lower section too. If i change position: fixed; to position: absolute; I get the same performance issue as before. Any idea how to fix this issue?
UPDATE 1
To all future readers: I fixed my problem by setting the background of the lower section to white:
.lower-section {
height: 100vh;
background: white;
}
From your attempt and advised from #MrLister to give an answer to the question:
As commented earlier and lost in the flow of comments , you were missing a background on .lower-section to hide previous one(s).
html,
body {
margin: 0
}
.upper-section {
height: 100vh;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
}
.upper-section::before {
content: ' ';
position: fixed;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
top: 0;
left: 0;
background: url("http://lorempixel.com/700/700") no-repeat fixed;
background-size: cover;
will-change: transform;
z-index: -1;
}
.lower-section {
height: 100vh;
background: white;
}
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Upper section
</div>
<div class="lower-section">
Lower section
</div>

How to get rid of overlap when transforming background and having position fixed?

I have a problem, as situated in the image:
When I am scrolling down, the background image I have (the blue one) gets a white area, while that should be blue too. The blue background should be blue everywhere, yet because it's skewed and I am using it as a fixed background image, it does not work, somehow.
HTML:
<div class="wrapper">
<p>Here comes some text and so on</p>
</div>
CSS:
.wrapper {
background: url("myimage.png");
background-attachment: fixed;
transform: skewY(3deg);
min-height: 500px;
}
The white background you can see, is the body background. It should not be there, yet it is, somehow. When I would remove background-attachment: fixed, it works, yet I want to have it fixed as I am using parallax scrolling.
So it looks like transform: skewY(3deg); and background-attachment: fixed are blocking each other. I tried adding z-index and so on, but nothing is working for me at the moment.
Is there a way to fix this?
To fix so that slope only occur at the bottom, use a pseudo.
For the skewY() to transform upwards, use transform-origin: right top;, then set overflow: hidden to the wrapper to clip the upper part and the slope is only visible at the bottom.
html, body {
margin: 0;
}
body {
background: red;
}
.wrapper {
position: relative;
height: 200px;
width: 100%;
min-height: 1500px;
overflow: hidden;
}
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content: '';
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
background: url("http://www.planwallpaper.com/static/images/6790904-free-background-wallpaper.jpg");
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
transform: skewY(3deg);
transform-origin: right top;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-position: center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
}
.wrapper::before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
background: url("http://www.planwallpaper.com/static/images/6790904-free-background-wallpaper.jpg");
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
transform: skewY(3deg);
transform-origin: right top;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-position: center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
}
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position: relative;
color: red;
font-size: 30px;
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Html/css: Put elements behind a repeating background

I am trying to find a way to put a nav bar behind some background images that repeat. Here it is:
Basically, I want to have a navigation bar behind the repeating plants image, but in front of the sun image. I am going to make the nav elements popup when they are hovered over. Here is my css for the header:
header {
height: 250px;
width: 100%;
background-image: url("top.png"), url("banner.png");
background-repeat: repeat-x, no-repeat;
background-size: auto 40px, cover;
background-position: bottom;
}
I would recommend z-index. From W3Schools:
"The z-index property specifies the stack order of an element.
An element with greater stack order is always in front of an element with a lower stack order."
The larger the z-index of an element, the closer to the front the element is.
Part of the solution was to use z-index as Howzieky mentioned but did not provide an example for. Here is how I did it:
css:
header {
height: 250px;
width: 100%;
position: relative;
}
#background-far {
height: 250px;
width: 100%;
background-image: url("banner.png");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
z-index: 0;
}
#header-body {
height: 250px;
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
z-index: 1;
}
#background-close {
height: 250px;
width: 100%;
background-image: url("top.png");
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-size: auto 40px;
background-position: bottom;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
z-index: 2;
}
html:
<header>
<div id="background-far"></div>
<div id="header-body">
<img src="logo.png"/>
</div>
<div id="background-close"></div>
</header>
I also needed split the header into 3 sections (background-far, header-body and background-close). Header body will store everything I will have in the header such as my nav bar. The important part was to make the header use position: relative and each section to use position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0;
Thanks for all your help everyone!