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.
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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.
first of all keep in mind I uderstand a very little of HTML language...
if you answer, do it as if you'd do it to a 10yo boy...
The question:
I'd like to have a background image in my website and another one on it.
the bg's image can be freely resized to match the screen or mobile size,
but the second one should keep its aspect ratio....!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/110747328#N03/
![you'll see on the left the full screen size and on the right the mobile size][1]
I dont know if understand you correctly. Here's what I get:
You want your bg image to be dynamically resized according to the size of the screen, but not the "content".
You can get the first by using the "background-size: cover"'s CSS property for your background:
body {
background: url('path-to-your-image.jpg') no-repeat center center fixed;
background-size: cover;
}
After that, if you just create a div and put your content in it. You'll get what you want: for the background to be resized and the content to keep its proportions.
Here is a live example: http://jsfiddle.net/agarridob/8NtwE/
By the way, I strongly recommend that you take a look at http://www.bentobox.io, where you'll find lots of resources that will help you understand a bit of what this HTML & CSS is.
Hi I'm trying to create a Responsive Email Template.
I can't make the background images responsive.
Here is a sample of the images code:
a#learn-more { background-size: 100%; display: block; background: url('http://tophitechgadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/learn-more.png')no-repeat; height: 68px; width: 600px; margin: 0 auto; }
Basically We have the following images that I am having a hard time making fluid (responsive)
-logo (a#learn-more)
-banner image (.banner-img)
-learn more button (a#learn-more)
-image1 and image2
I have my demo here: http://jsfiddle.net/nLxjU/3/
Hope you can edit the code to see what my issue why I cant make them responsive.
I'm really stuck here.
You can use a different div with absolute positioning, and containing the image inside it with percentile width and height, so when the screen size changes, the div (and the image inside it) resizes, too. Just place the div below everything with z-index and you're done.
Email-clients, like Outlook (-Express), Mail (OSX) etc, all use different html-engines, and have a lot of restrictions. Especially Outlook seems to be using a limited IE6 based rendering engine. Background images and styling by css classes don't work, and forget about absolute or relative positioning.
Make sure the template also looks good in these email-clients, unless you only aim at mobile email clients (they seem to support all of this).
Take a look at the standards guide (html/css) at http://www.emailology.org/.
You can improve with the following, but as #Willem says you really need to change your approach if making an email template. Many email clients completely remove the head and strip out styles. Some support a limited set of inline styles for formatting and none for layout. In fact an old-school table layout with inline styles is generally the best way to go.
You might find some of this useful: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/guides/mobile/
As for making the best of what you've got so far:
Your .divider and .banner-img elements were set to 600px wide.
Set them as 100%.
Don't have the banner as a background image.
Size your .lpanel and .rpanel images as 100% of the parent's
width.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/nLxjU/
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 want to display a collection of image thumbnails in a grid. The images will come in a variety of sizes, but I'd like to restrict the thumbnails to a particular size (let's say 200px wide and 150px tall).
What I'd like to find are some magical HTML markup and CSS rules that will
Allow the images to be included in normal <img> elements
Ensure that the thumbnails fit into their 200x150 pixel box, retain their proportions, and are centered in whichever dimension they overflow.
Not require JavaScript or specific knowledge of each image's actual dimensions
I'm not sure if this is possible. I can make a (bad) approximation of what I want with the following markup:
<div class="thumb">
<img src="360x450.jpeg">
</div>
and CSS:
.thumb {
width: 200px;
height: 150px;
overflow: hidden;
}
.thumb img {
min-width: 200px;
min-height: 150px;
width: 200px;
}
This attempt breaks in a variety of ways:
Images that are in portrait orientation will be sized correctly, but will overflow through the bottom of the container, resulting in vertically-off-center cropping.
Images that are wide and short will be distorted in the horizontal dimension because of the hard-coded width and min-height rules.
But without that hard-coded width, images that are larger than the minimum height and width will not be resized at all.
If it's at all helpful, I've put up an example that will (hopefully) illustrate what I'm trying to do, here:
http://overloaded.org/tmp/imgtest/
http://overloaded.org/tmp/imgtest/imgtest.zip
I know that I can solve this problem by omitting the <img> element altogether and instead pulling the thumbnails in as a centered background image on the containing element, but, if it's possible, I'd like to keep the <img> elements in the page.
Thanks for any help or pointers you can provide!
Edit: I suppose I should note that an ideal solution will work in IE 6+ and modern browsers, but any solution that works in IE 9+ and other modern browsers (recent WebKit, Gecko, etc.) will be gladly accepted.
You can (kind of) achieve this with the CSS3 background-size additions: contain and cover.
Live Demo
contain (top picture) fits the entire image, keeping aspect ratio. Nothing is cropped.
cover (bottom picture) fills the containing element either vertically or horizontally (depending on the image) and crops the rest.
Possible, probably.
Also, probably not the best idea. Your big issue to overcome here is orientation of thumbnails. What if you're dealing with a panorama? Certainly, shrinking it down is going to create a very unsightly "squished" image, as would a very tall image. It's rare that everyone deals in 4X3 or 16X9 100% of the time. So, you'll need a mechanism to pad out the image. Even if the ratio is correct, it's not going to resize as cleanly as you could with a program like Photoshop or Gimp.
The other major issue in this thought process is that you're going to be sending massive amounts of unnecessary data to the server via the larger images. It'll take longer to load, fill up the DOM unnecessarily, and overall just inhibit the UI experience.
There are a number of ways to get around this, none of them pure CSS. I've tackled this several times, each in a unique way based on the client. For one client that wanted things totally custom, it was a custom uploader, resizing via iMagick (part of image magic) and custom CSS/Javascript for the album with major interactivity. In another instance, I use Gallery as the backend--handling the thumbnail creation, uploading, titling, cropping, and organizing-- and then just pulled the reformatted image links out of the DB to display them in a more appealing manner. You could save yourself even more trouble and just use something like the Flickr api to pull images for your use.
Here's a tut on using ImageMagick to do thumbnails.
.thumb img {
max-width: 200px;
max-height: 150px;
min-width: 200px;
min-height: 150px;
}
Well I know for thumbs you would want it max and min if you want a smaller image to make it bigger and bigger image to make it smaller.
try to set max-width and height and not min because if the image is not exactly that size it will overflow :)