I got my colleague's web page together with and the css files and many images. I need to apply part of it to my jsp page. I have to admit that I didn't have any experience in handling css. Currently I am using GIMP2 to edit those 1-pixel-width background images. It's really the pain in the neck. I have to guess the proper image size, crop it a bit, then view it in the jsp... Do you have a better way to edit those 1-pixel-width images? Thanks in advance.
You might want to look into using Firebug add on for Firefox. There you can tweak the height of the graphics while looking at the page (yes, you need some knowledge about the DOM, CSS and Firebug to fully get this, but it's worth learning). Once you're happy with it, you open up your image editor and crop the image to that height.
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I have replaced a header logo image which was just text in an arc on the following website: Leeds Magic Circle
Disclaimer: I did not design or create this website I am just performing some small modifications to it.
The original image said "1919 - 2015" and needed updating, hence I chose SVG to replace it with a bit of javascript to update the date portion.
It looks good, however it doesn't scale down when the browser is reduced or viewed on a mobile device.
I need the SVG to fit the 800x116 which replaced the original image, but I need it to scale down too.
I am very new to playing with SVG and the answers on the web are somewhat confusing so hopefully someone here can help.
Also open to alternative methods to achieve this goal.
Thank you
I am using yslow in which it tells don't scale images in HTML but the images are coming from database and I use them using bootstrap grids. Most of the images are show in popup on click.
The image width I set is in the css file in percentages like max-width:100% or width:100%;, but I don't know what to set to not scale the images in HTML.
I don't know how to resolve this issue. Please help me.
YSlow is telling you this because it is not a good practice to resize images in HTML, especially if the images become smaller, as this means you spend too much time downloading.
You don't need to take everything performance monitors like YSlow are telling you as an action item. The reports are only recommendations. As #Amin Gharavi said, if the images load fast enough for you, then it's probably okay.
The problem is if you are downloading images that are MUCH bigger than their apparent visual, which usually means much slower download in addition to lower visual quality in some browsers.
I was wondering if there is an easy way to recreate the attached image using CSS3.
I've included this image as a page background but one of the senior devs told me there is an easy way to create this image background using CSS3.
I thought the background images can be done using CSS3 for repeatable patterns. But this image doesn't have any patterns that I could see.
Is that possible for this image?
I think this is interesting as experiment, but its not pragmatic.
You can convert an image to css here. PNGs work best.
Warning though, you will get tons of lines of HTML + CSS to create this image. It will come out pixel perfect though. I will also warn you that I tried uploading it to Jsfiddle, Jsbin and Codepen - all of them would just hang. Pen loaded and I couldn't save it since it's larger than 1MB.
This is what my text editor looks like with your image converted to CSS though.
This is just for reference. Yes, you can convert to CSS, but it doesn't mean that you should. I suppose it might be useful for things like email? But not for large images.
Cheers!
I am currently working on a project that involves a background image that needs to be linked specifically to an element within a container div.
The link is: http://idearevolution.ca/clients/jab/
The challenge I am running into is that as I resize my screen the green circle doesn't stay behind the guy. I've run into issues with responsive background images having to work with elements within a contained area in the past, but I've never been happy with my solutions.
The last thing I tried was using Sass to run a loop, adding a media query to update the position every 10 - 20 pixels. I don't like this solution however because of the code bloat it generates.
I am wondering if anyone has run into this issue before and if so, how do you go about resolving it? I've tried a few things but I'm just not happy with any of the solutions.
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Andrew
Semantics would fix this problem best.
The semantics of using an image is this:
If the Image does not add to the content and explanation of the site,
do not use the image.
So, in truth, this image looks like it should only be part of the design.
Therefore, use the CSS3 Feature of Multiple Backgrounds.
I'm kind of sure this is not possible but I ask because it seems unbelievable.
I have some elements styled for reponsive design
img {max-width:100%;height:auto;}
but the images have to be different depending on the device (I won't load heavy wide screen images on a phone device).
Since media queries aren't supported inline, I could go for a css background solution, but background-size is not perfectly supported and honnestly it would look more like a hack.
Can anyone confirm that "widely supported device related responsive images" are not properly possible ?
Thanks
If I understand your question correctly, you are looking for a way to deliver a different image depending on the viewpoint.
Adaptive Images could be the solution you are looking for. Easy enough to setup and confirm.
A second possiblity which might give you even more control is Adapt.js . I've used it with good success on several sites. You load a small javascript file in the head of your document. This tests viewpoint width and then dependending on the results, it will send the appropriate CSS file. It has wider browser support than #media requests.
If you could live with using background images, then it would work well, and since you could specify different images for different viewpoints, you aren't up the creek with browsers that don't understand background image sizes.
Good luck!
You could try the Responsive Img jQuery plugin.
It's made to automatically create and swap in different-sized images at different breakpoints, based on the container's width.
If you already have different versions on your image created and on your server, the plugin will just swap those in at the right breakpoint sizes.
Therefore, you can create new images for all the different breakpoint sizes you want, and the plugin takes care of the rest.
It's not CSS, but it gets the job done.
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There is a nice and new technique here :
http://filamentgroup.com/lab/responsive_images_experimenting_with_context_aware_image_sizing/
It requires a small js, a 1x1px blank image, a few extra markup for img tags, and some .htaccess rules.
Seems to work fine so far.