Probably one of the most documented subjects and yet I can't seem to find a proper answer for what I'm trying to get accomplished.
I have a sprite containing two images on top of each other. I only want to show the green one and have it be responsive at the same time. It is the background image of the whole page.
Please see: http://demo.chilipress.com/epic3/
I've given it a height: 900px because that's half of the height of the full img. I know it's not responsive as it is now.
HTML:
<div id="background_contact"></div>
CSS:
#background_contact{
background-image: url('bg_contact.jpg');
width:100%;
height: 900px;
background-position: 0 0;
background-size: 100%;
display: block;
}
An example is to have a hover effect on it, but you get the idea.
#background_contact:hover {
background-position: 0% 100%;
}
If you don't mind the stretch, you can adjust your CSS to cover everything.
#background_contact {
background-size: 100% 200%;
}
If you don't want it to stretch, you can use the following CSS, though you may want your own background color filler for the gaps:
#background_contact {
background-size: auto 200%;
background-position: 50% 0;
}
#background_contact:hover {
background-position: 50% 100%;
}
Related
(Beginner question)
Hello, I'm trying to create a site that has one long image as a background that you can scroll. Nothing fancy, just one image of 1920x3740 of which you can only see a viewport-sized section of. I added an image to clarify what I mean.
I've tried using multiple divs under each other of 1920x1080, and chopped the image up to fit correctly, which kind of worked, but they wouldn't stay 16x9 so the edges of each image didn't match up. Now what i've got is one big image but I can't scroll it.
HTML:
<div class="bgImageFull"></div>
CSS:
.bgImageFull{
background-image: url(../images/LandingPage/NEW_TAHIN_IMAGE_FULL.jpg);
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
}
This also goes before but I don't think it does anything for my issue:
*{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
text-decoration: none;
}
html, body{
height: 100%;
font-family: 'functionPro';
}
.bgImageFull {
background-image: url(../images/LandingPage/NEW_TAHIN_IMAGE_FULL.jpg);
height: 3740px;
width: 100%;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
}
Height: 100%; Could be what's messing this up for you.
It might be better to specify the actual height of your image in the image's class. 100% is just going to cover the available height of the parent element.
I think I have an impossible task but before giving up on this I want to be sure that it's really not possible. Maybe it's possible with millions of media queries, but that isn't worth the struggle.
However, I have a backgroundimage with a height of 100vh, meaning it's always 100% height of the users window, and a width of 100%. These two things might make my task impossible.
Within the background image I have another image which should always be on that position, no matter what.
I came up with an example. I want the rocket always stay on that rectangle on the planet. I made this possible on my screen, but it could slip on your screen due different screen sizes.
(stackoverflow doesn't allow images with http, so please change the image src to http or take a look at my codepen: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/yjXbPL)
.background {
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-image: url("https://wallpaper-house.com/data/out/7/wallpaper2you_191762.jpg");
background-size: cover;
background-position: center center;
height: 100vh;
width: 100%;
}
img {
width: 150px;
position: fixed;
top: 240px;
right: 780px;
transform: rotate(-20deg)
}
<div class="background">
<img src="https://www.myiconfinder.com/uploads/iconsets/256-256-7647188dd0df401f7ec5c5358a0af9a1-rocket.png">
</div>
Is this possible?
Use Position fixed as u do.
Use Left and top, not right.
Put the image beside the background div not in it.
Attached codesnippet shows you a solution. It is based on that you put your rocket and background in 2 different divs and stack them by using CSS-index.
Further on, the rocket is positioned fixed and I added a height of the background that makes it a bit scrollable.
Now, to solve the graphical split of the rocket and the background image you would have to create them as 2 different images and place them into each respective div in the HTML (see codesnippet).
In terms of using different devices you would have to test how the rocket might change position and solve that through a combination of media queries, and potentially use % position instead of px (to position the rocket correct):
.background-pic {
position: absolute;
z-index: 1;
width: 200px;
height: 1000px;
background-color: darkblue;
}
.rocket {
position: fixed;
z-index: 2;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
background-color: orange;
margin: 100px 0px 0px 100px;
}
<div class="background-pic"></div>
<div class="rocket"></div>
The reason why this can be really hard to achieve is because you're using background-size: cover; which means stretch the image while keeping its aspect ratio and crop the image in order to fit its container's height and width. When you combine this with background-position: center center; it will crop on the edges equally. Then finally you're using two different kinds of measurement units: height: 100vh; width: 100%;
The question then becomes, before the image is cropped, what's the new width and height for the image that "cover" is applying?
This is something very difficult for CSS to determine because it requires things like knowing the ratio of your image (2560x1600 has a ratio of 1.6:1), then trying to fit it inside a container of variable width and height such that it is just small enough to fill it, while cropping out anything left out, before it is cropped, what is the actual size of the image?
Both height: 100vh; and width: 100%; will affect its size, in the manner explained above. As this requires comparing the image's original height and width, with the container's width and height to determine how to stretch the image, trying to figure this sort of math out with pure CSS isn't an easy feat for CSS to achieve without some assistance from JavaScript.
A decent solution is to add a bunch of transparency to the rocket image so it has the same size as the background so it can also go through the same "cover" stretching and cropping logic.
Give this a shot:
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/xjrPvM
HTML:
<div class="background" data-comment="2560x1600 has an aspect ratio of 1.6:1">
<div class="rocket">
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.background {
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-image: url("https://wallpaper-house.com/data/out/7/wallpaper2you_191762.jpg");
background-size: cover;
background-position: center center;
height: 100vh;
width: 100%;
}
.rocket {
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
background-position: center center;
height: 100vh;
width: 100%;
background-image:
url('your-rocket-on-a-2560x1600-canvas-with-lots-of-transparency.png');
}
Within the codepen I used a base64 encoded version of "your-rocket-on-a-2560x1600-canvas-with-lots-of-transparency.png"
which is just the rocket placed on a 2560x1600 canvas I did in GIMP, transformed it -20.0 degrees moved it around so it's placed where you want it then exported it as a PNG.
Instead of using the image as background, I've used an inline image with the rocket placed on top. Then the rocket and background are made responsive relative to each other.
.background {
position: relative;
}
.background img {
max-width: 100%;
display: block;
}
#rocket {
top: 49%;
left: 47%;
width: 15%;
height: 15%;
background-image: url(http://www.myiconfinder.com/uploads/iconsets/256-256-7647188dd0df401f7ec5c5358a0af9a1-rocket.png);
background-position: top center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: contain;
position: absolute;
transform: rotate(-20deg)
}
<div class="background">
<img src="https://wallpaper-house.com/data/out/7/wallpaper2you_191762.jpg">
<div id="rocket"></div>
</div>
Up to some point, it's possible. Here is my solution for that, I have tried and tested your code. These are the changes to fix your code:
Set the position of the image to fixed:
img
{
width: 150px;
position: fixed;
top: 50%;
margin-top: 20px; (adjust some pixels as per your need)
right: 50%;
margin-right: -90px;(adjust some pixel as per your need)
transform: rotate(-20deg)
}
Here is the complete working example:
https://codepen.io/atulraj89/pen/MGooLr
This seems to be a common question but the existing answers I see do not seem to work for me. I have a background image that is much taller than it is wide. I would like the height to be 100% of the height of body. So far I have tried:
body, html {
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
}
body {
background:url("NewLogo.png") no-repeat center center;
background-size: 100% auto;
}
I have also tried changing background-size: cover; but this also just makes the image large but cuts off the top and bottom.
Use contain. This will guarantee that the entire image appears in the container, and nothing is cut off:
body {
background:url("NewLogo.png") no-repeat center center;
background-size: contain;
}
Please note that if you want to have a background image which is cover and has got it's own height (without just being large, as wide as your browser but loosing the top & bottom as you said), you can try giving an appropriate height in vh to your background image.
body {
margin: 0;
}
#image {
background-image: url(https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1504387103978-e4ee71416c38?auto=format&fit=crop&w=2134&q=60&ixid=dW5zcGxhc2guY29tOzs7Ozs%3D);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height: 293vh;
background-size: cover;
}
<div id="image">
</div>
Otherwise if you just want to make your background image cover, or if you want make it contain(though your image wouldn't fit the browser wide, it would be in it's real height), you can visit the following link:
codepen>background-size>CSS-Tricks
Say, like in this example here: http://www.electrictoolbox.com/examples/wide-background-image.html
When I do it, I end up getting white borders around the image no matter what I do. What am I doing wrong?
If you're hoping to use background-image: url(...);, I don't think you can. However, if you want to play with layering, you can do something like this:
<img class="bg" src="..." />
And then some CSS:
.bg
{
width: 100%;
z-index: 0;
}
You can now layer content above the stretched image by playing with z-indexes and such. One quick note, the image can't be contained in any other elements for the width: 100%; to apply to the whole page.
Here's a quick demo if you can't rely on background-size: http://jsfiddle.net/bB3Uc/
Background images, ideally, are always done with CSS. All other images are done with html. This will span the whole background of your site.
body {
background: url('../images/cat.ong');
background-size: cover;
background-position: center;
background-attachment: fixed;
}
You set the CSS to :
#elementID {
background: black url(http://www.electrictoolbox.com/images/rangitoto-3072x200.jpg) center no-repeat;
height: 200px;
}
It centers the image, but does not scale it.
FIDDLE
In newer browsers you can use the background-size property and do:
#elementID {
height: 200px;
width: 100%;
background: black url(http://www.electrictoolbox.com/images/rangitoto-3072x200.jpg) no-repeat;
background-size: 100% 100%;
}
FIDDLE
Other than that, a regular image is one way to do it, but then it's not really a background image.
the problem is the margin of body his default value is margin: 8px
and i make it margin : 0 so the image stretching and there is no white places
I have
body {
background: url(images/background.svg);
}
The desired effect is that this background image will have width equal to that of the page, height changing to maintain the proportion. e.g. if the original image happens to be 100*200 (any units) and the body is 600px wide, the background image should end up being 1200px high. The height should change automatically if the window is resized. Is this possible?
At the moment, Firefox looks like it's making the height fit and then adjusting the width. Is this perhaps because the height is the longest dimension and it's trying to avoid cropping? I want to crop vertically, then scroll: no horizontal repeat.
Also, Chrome is placing the image in the centre, no repeat, even when background-repeat:repeat is given explicitly, which is the default anyway.
There is a CSS3 property for this, namely background-size (compatibility check). While one can set length values, it's usually used with the special values contain and cover. In your specific case, you should use cover:
body {
background-image: url(images/background.svg);
background-size: cover; /* <------ */
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center center; /* optional, center the image */
}
Eggsplanation for contain and cover
Sorry for the bad pun, but I'm going to use the picture of the day by Biswarup Ganguly for demonstration. Lets say that this is your screen, and the gray area is outside of your visible screen. For demonstration, I'm going to assume a 16x9 ratio.
We want to use the aforementioned picture of the day as a background. However, we cropped the image to 4x3 for some reason. We could set the background-size property to some fixed length, but we will focus on contain and cover. Note that I also assume that we didn't mangle the width and/or height of body.
contain
contain
Scale the image, while preserving its intrinsic aspect ratio (if any), to the largest size such that both its width and its height can fit inside the background positioning area.
This makes sure that the background image is always completely contained in the background positioning area, however, there could be some empty space filled with your background-color in this case:
cover
cover
Scale the image, while preserving its intrinsic aspect ratio (if any), to the smallest size such that both its width and its height can completely cover the background positioning area.
This makes sure that the background image is covering everything. There will be no visible background-color, however depending on the screen's ratio a great part of your image could be cut off:
Demonstration with actual code
div > div {
background-image: url(http://i.stack.imgur.com/r5CAq.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center center;
background-color: #ccc;
border: 1px solid;
width: 20em;
height: 10em;
}
div.contain {
background-size: contain;
}
div.cover {
background-size: cover;
}
/********************************************
Additional styles for the explanation boxes
*********************************************/
div > div {
margin: 0 1ex 1ex 0;
float: left;
}
div + div {
clear: both;
border-top: 1px dashed silver;
padding-top:1ex;
}
div > div::after {
background-color: #000;
color: #fefefe;
margin: 1ex;
padding: 1ex;
opacity: 0.8;
display: block;
width: 10ex;
font-size: 0.7em;
content: attr(class);
}
<div>
<div class="contain"></div>
<p>Note the grey background. The image does not cover the whole region, but it's fully <em>contained</em>.
</p>
</div>
<div>
<div class="cover"></div>
<p>Note the ducks/geese at the bottom of the image. Most of the water is cut, as well as a part of the sky. You don't see the complete image anymore, but neither do you see any background color; the image <em>covers</em> all of the <code><div></code>.</p>
</div>
Based on tips from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/background-size I end up with the following recipe that worked for me
body {
overflow-y: hidden ! important;
overflow-x: hidden ! important;
background-color: #f8f8f8;
background-image: url('index.png');
/*background-size: cover;*/
background-size: contain;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: right;
}
Background image is not Set Perfect then his css is problem create so his css file change to below code
html {
background-image: url("example.png");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 0% 0%;
background-size: 100% 100%;
}
%; background-size: 100% 100%;"
I'm not sure what you're looking for exactly, but you really should check out these excellent blog posts written by Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks:
http://css-tricks.com/how-to-resizeable-background-image/
http://css-tricks.com/perfect-full-page-background-image/
Read the descriptions for each of the articles and see if they're what you're looking for.
The first answers the following question:
Is there a way to make a background image resizeable? As in, fill the background of a web page edge-to-edge with an image, no matter the size of the browser window. Also, have it resize larger or smaller as the browser window changes. Also, make sure it retains its ratio (doesn't stretch weird). Also, doesn't cause scrollbars, just cuts off vertically if it needs to. Also, comes in on the page as an inline tag.
The second post's goal is to get the following, a "background image on a website that covers the entire browser window at all times. "
Hope this helps.
Just add this one line:
.your-class {
height: 100vh;
}
vh is viewport height.
This will automatically scale to fit the device' browser window.
Check more here: Make div 100% height of browser window
body{
background-image: url(../url/imageName.jpg);
background-attachment: fixed;
background-size: auto 100%;
background-position: center;
}
Try this,
element.style {
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url("img/shopping_bgImg.jpg") no-repeat scroll center center / cover;
}
I had the same issue, unable to resize the image when adjusting browser dimensions.
Bad Code:
html {
background-color: white;
background-image: url("example.png");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: scroll;
background-position: 0% 0%;
}
Good Code:
html {
background-color: white;
background-image: url("example.png");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: scroll;
background-position: 0% 0%;
background-size: contain;
}
The key here is the addition of this element -> background-size: contain;
Here's what worked for me:
background-size: auto 100%;
width: 100%;
height: 100vh;
background: url("../img/hero-bg.jpg") top center;
background-size: cover;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 0% 0%;
background-size: 100% 100%;
if you set min-height, for example:
min-height: 100vh;
You can use the below code to fit your background easily
body {
background: url(images/background.svg);
min-height: 100vh;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
}
Setting background size does not help, the following solution worked for me:
.class {
background-image: url(blablabla.jpg);
/* Add this */
height: auto;
}
It basically crops the image and makes it fit in, background-size: contain/cover still didn't make it fit.