Working Demo: http://jsbin.com/opokev/54
I'm working on having this image as the background image and also have a header as well, however, as the demo shows my header is cutting onto the image.
How can I correct this so that first the header draws and then the background body image draws. I still want to maintain the quality of the image as is without scaling it.
Here you go http://jsbin.com/opokev/64/
just changed top: 0 to top: 85px and it works.
Try using background-position.
background-position: 0px 85px;
Could do the trick :)
Or you could try just using this:
#background img {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
top: 85px;
left: 0;
z-index: -1;
}
I can't see any difference in these to backgrounds (thinking about scaling):
http://jsbin.com/opokev/54
http://jsbin.com/ijoyiy/2
Then again, I'm 2min away from sleeping and I haven't got my glasses on ;)
Remove the img tag and use background-image for the div#background. Then, set background-position to center 85px.
Combined CSS:
div#background
{
background:url('http://i52.tinypic.com/33xd1yu.jpg') no-repeat center 85px;
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
This will shift the background image down 85px.
Related
I want to display some random design images on my sites background as background-image, problem now is that every time I place such an image it somehow interacts with nearby boxes etc.
I just want my design images (small icons etc) to be part of the background without getting in touch with other non-design elements like text, boxes etc.
Something like that I guess:
body {
min-height: 100vh;
position: relative;
height: auto;
width: auto;
background-image: url("/static/pattern.jpg");
background-repeat: repeat;
z-index: -10;
} -> "The actual background of the site"
.design_element_01 {
position: relative;
z-index: -1;
background-image: url("/static/xyz.png");
max-width: 100px;
} -> "The design element that should get placed onto the body background from above"
Try:
.design_element_01 {
position: absolute
/*...*/
}
In addition, you might need to change max-width to width, since a background doesn't provide width to the element.
Centering the Background
There are a few different approaches to centering the background. I'll outline one here; if it doesn't work for you, I can describe others.
Essentially, the idea is to make the .design_element_01 element itself take up the entire page. Then, background-size can be used to constrain the size of the background, and background-position can be used to center it. A basic example would be:
.design_element_01 {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
background: url("/static/xyz.png");
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
/* I'm using 100px here since you used max-width: 100px, but you can use whatever you want. */
background-size: 100px;
background-position: center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
z-index: -1;
}
(Do note that I haven't tested this; you may need to tweak it.)
If you test this example, however, you will notice that this centers the background on the screen, but not necessarily the entire page. This may or may not be what you want. If not, you can change the <body> element's position property:
body {
position: relative;
}
This should cause the .design_element_01 element to be positioned relative to the <body> element.
I also created a JSFiddle example to demonstrate the solution: https://jsfiddle.net/mouqewzv/.
Finally, if you don't want your element completely centered, but just offset from the center, you could tweak the left and top properties of design_element_01 to position the background initially at the center, but then offset it.
Try setting your design_element_01 position to absolute NOT relative
and then try to place it however you want using
left:
right:
top:
bottom:
z-index:
Hope this works!
So i have this image right here
"http://i.imgur.com/eh71foN.png"
My problem is that whenever i resize the window the Mass Effect image doesnt resize with it.
It becomes like this
"http://i.imgur.com/jaDV7jG.png"
I've been trying to figure this out for a while. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
#MassEffectSign {
background: url(masseffect12.png) center top no-repeat;
top: 25px; left: 750px; z-index: 2;
padding: 250px;
position: absolute;
}
My blue background
#bodyBorder {
background: url(navyblue.jpg) center top repeat-y;
padding: 1000px;
opacity: 0.7;
background-attachment: fixed; }
Use img tag instead background image in CSS.
img {width: 100%}
Use percents for the relevent values.
top: 25px; left: 45%;
This makes the amount of space between the left edge and the image relative to the window size. Play around with the value a little to center it and you should be good.
Your positioning is absolute, so it will move independently of the scale. Put that inside a relatively positioned div and then it will work.
For instance,
<div style="position:relative;">
<div id="MassEffectSign"> </div>
</div>
Hope this helps.
I wanted my background image to stay at the same position. So I made use of
background-attachment:fixed;
When I discovered that iOS does apparently not support this property, I decided to put a fixed background div into the DOM. This actually works pretty well:
#background {
top:0;
left:0;
width:100%;
height:100%;
position:fixed;
background-position:50% 0%;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-attachment:fixed;
background-image:url("images/mark-bg.png");
}
At the first look, this works great in iOS too. But then I recognized, that Safari scrolls the DIV up, to where it would have got scrolled, if it wouldn't be fixed.
Now I ask myself »What the hell...?!« I mean... Why does iOS scroll an element that is explicitly told to not do so?
Is there any intelligent solution?
Here is a complete Demo
EDIT
I just found out, that not the element moves itself, but the background image moves...
I found a quite suboptimal solution, but at least it works. I don't use background-image in CSS anymore but put a img tag inside the background div and position it absolute:
#background img {
top:0;
left:0;
right:0;
bottom:0;
position:absolute;
}
Here is the fiddle
Unfortunately, the paragraph "this is text" is not vidible anymore. Lucky, thats it's just for background...
Also the image is not centered anymore, nor resized correctly :[
Edit
I added the following CSS to fix the positioning:
#background img {
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}
Julian's answer was very helpful to me.
It solved part of the problem, which was to prevent scrolling of the background image by replacing it with a static image in a fixed position div, avoiding Safari's faulty interpretation of "background-attachment: fixed".
But it left me with an image that I couldn't center within the viewport such that the center of the image was always on the center of the viewport.
This is normally background-position: 50% 50% and background-size: cover, but not when we don't have a background-image at all.
So I replaced Julian's inner <img> with a <div> having similar settings.
Then I added the background-image and properties to that div, EXCEPT FOR background-attachment which I left out.
This resulted in a div which took up the entire viewport and was fixed to the viewport, and which had a child div filling it completely, and that child div had a static background image set at position 50%/50% and size cover.
Works great!
My inner div styles are as follows:
#div_background > div
{
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: auto;
height: auto;
right: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
position: absolute;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
display: inline-block;
background-image: url(/images/background.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center center;
background-size: cover;
}
With the parent div styles as follows:
#div_background
{
display: inline-block;
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
right: 0%;
bottom: 0%;
z-index: -1;
background-color: #A0B4C8;
}
And the HTML is simply:
<div id="div_background"><div></div></div>
I consider this a hacky solution, but a necessary one due to Safari's bug.
A simple way of thinking of it is that rather than using background-attachment of fixed, we're creating our own fixed background and manually attaching a new div with the background image to that.
Thanks, Julian!
I am looking for some help. I have built a site where I want to have a patterned background image (works fine) but, I want to have a border image on top of the background image across the top.
I have tried using position: absolute and setting the z-index on each element but each time it cuts the background image in half and doesn't overlay at all.
Help!
Here's the code I have so far. I am new to coding so excuse any poor code!
body {
color:#787371;
background:url(images/line-top.png) repeat-x top;
position: absolute;
z-index: 1;
}
#bodychild {
background:url(images/bg-body.jpg);
border:0;
position: absolute;
z-index: 10;
}
use multiple backgrounds:
body {
background:
url(http://subtlepatterns.com/patterns/dark_fish_skin.png) center top repeat-x,
url(http://subtlepatterns.com/patterns/food.png) center top repeat;
}
more info: http://css-tricks.com/stacking-order-of-multiple-backgrounds/
What I'm trying to achieve without using JS can be seen on jsfiddle.net/k2h5b/.
Basically I would like to display two images, both centered, one in background and one in foreground:
Background Image: Should cover the whole window without affecting the aspect ratio, which means that the image will always touch two opposite edges of the window, but the image will be cropped.
Forground Image: Should be inside the window without affecting the aspect ratio, which means the image will be always touch two opposite edges of the window, but the image will not be cropped.
It doesn't matter if it's a <div> or an <img> tag, as long as they are displaying the images.
Asume also that the image sizes are known upfront and can be used in CSS or HTML part.
So my question is: is it possible using only CSS or CSS3?
If it's not possible I will accept the answer that will be as close as possible to my goal.
Examples:
When the background image is cropped from the top and bottom:
When the background image when it's cropped from left and right:
After looking at #Kent Brewster's answer, I think I could achieve all the requirements of OP.
This doesn't have the problem of foreground image being cropped and you can also specify constant margin around the foreground image. Also div is being used instead of img tag, because we are using background images. Here is the link and here is the code:
<div id='bg'></div>
<div id='fg'></div>
#bg {
position: absolute;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
background-image: url(http://i.imgur.com/iOvxJ.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 50% 50%;
background-size: cover;
}
#fg {
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
left: 10px;
bottom: 10px;
right: 10px;
opacity: .7;
background-image: url(http://i.imgur.com/HP9tp.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 50% 50%;
background-size: contain;
}
Try this:
<html>
<style>
body {
margin: 0;
}
#bg {
position: absolute;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
background: transparent url(bg.jpg) 50% 50% no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
}
#fg {
position: absolute;
height: 90%;
width: 90%;
top: 5%;
left: 5%;
background: transparent url(fg.jpg) 50% 50% no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
opacity: .7;
}
</style>
<body>
<div id="bg"></div>
<div id="fg"></div>
</body>
</html>
If the scaling requirement is flexible, it might work. See http://jsfiddle.net/k2h5b/5/ to see it run.
Yes, it's possible.
Basically I just made the background image the background for the <body> (doesn't have to be the body of course), and then put the image inside that with a small margin.
<body>
<img id='fg' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OYlUbWqyqog/TeL-gXGx3MI/AAAAAAAAHRc/bdqvvvaeC7c/s1600/bald-eagle3.jpg'></img>
</body>
css:
body {
margin: 0; padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
background: url('http://wallpaper.zoda.ru/bd/2006/07/21/2c7b4306fd22f049f331d43adb74a5f7.jpg') no-repeat left top;
}
#fg {
margin: 20px 20px;
opacity: 0.7;
}
obviously if the window is too big, there'd be issues. You could (I guess) use media queries to pull in different image sizes based on window size.
edit — OK, well for the image, if you do want it to crop and retain the right aspect ratio, then I think you'll have to know the image size ahead of time to do it so that it works out. Lacking that, here's another revision.
<body>
<div id='fg'> </div>
</body>
css:
body {
margin: 0; padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
background: url('http://wallpaper.zoda.ru/bd/2006/07/21/2c7b4306fd22f049f331d43adb74a5f7.jpg') no-repeat left top;
}
body, html { width: 100%; height: 100%; }
#fg {
margin: 2%; width: 96%; height: 96%;
opacity: 0.7;
background: url('http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OYlUbWqyqog/TeL-gXGx3MI/AAAAAAAAHRc/bdqvvvaeC7c/s1600/bald-eagle3.jpg') no-repeat center center;
}
If you know the image dimensions, you could then set max-height and max-width. (I'll try that too :-)
edit again To get the background to crop in a centered way, you'd need to set the position to "center center" instead of "left top". (Or "center top" if you just want it centered horizontally.)
Vertically centering elements with CSS without cutting-edge non-standard features (flexible box layout) is hard. That may be something to do with JavaScript. I'll say that one problem with any JavaScript solution like that is that it really slows the browser down. If you must do it, I would suggest introducing a little time lag so that you don't try to recompute the layout on every resize event. Instead, set a timer for like 200 milliseconds in the future where the work will get done, and each time you do so cancel the previous timer. That way, while a person is dragging the window corner it won't burn up their CPU.
edit even more ooh ooh yes #Kent Brewster's answer with the vertical centering is good - I always forget that trick :-)
There is no way to achieve this effect using only CSS, for two main reasons:
Because you are trying to resize your image, you cannot use the background property and must instead use an <img> tag. Your image will always try to take up as much room as it can if the width and height are not set. Thus, the aspect ratio will not be maintained, or your image will be cropped.
The other caveat of resizing the image is that you will not be able to vertically-align it to the center of your page without knowing its dimensions.