Stretch and scale CSS background

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Is there a way to get a background in CSS to stretch or scale to fill its container

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Use the CSS 3 property background-size    my container       background-size  100  auto     width and height  can be    px or whatever         This is available for modern browsers  since 2012

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Try the article background-size  If you use all of the following  it will work in most browsers except Internet nbsp Explorer    foo       background-image  url bg-image png       -moz-background-size  100  100       -o-background-size  100  100       -webkit-background-size  100  100        background-size  100  100

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Not currently  It will be available in CSS 3  but it will take some time until it s implemented in most browsers

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In one word  no  The only way to stretch an image is with the  lt img gt  tag  You ll have to be creative   This used to be true in 2008  when the answer was written  Today modern browsers support background-size which solves this problem  Beware that IE8 doesn t support it

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style1           background  url images bg jpg  no-repeat center center fixed          -webkit-background-size  cover          -moz-background-size  cover          -o-background-size  cover          background-size  cover      Works in    Safari 3   Chrome Whatever   IE 9   Opera 10   Opera 9 5 supported background-size but not the keywords  Firefox 3 6   Firefox 4 supports non-vendor prefixed version    In addition you can try this for an ie solution      filter  progid DXImageTransform Microsoft AlphaImageLoader src   myBackground jpg   sizingMethod  scale        -ms-filter   progid DXImageTransform Microsoft AlphaImageLoader src  myBackground jpg   sizingMethod  scale         zoom 1    Credit to this article by Chris Coyier http   css-tricks com perfect-full-page-background-image

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Use the background-size attribute  in CSS3    class        background-image  url bg gif        background-size  100       EDIT  Modernizr supports detection of background-size support  You can use a JavaScript workaround written to work however you need it and load it dynamically when there is no support  This will keep the code maintainable without resorting to intrusive CSS hacks for certain browsers   Personally I use a script to deal with it using jQuery  its an adaption of imgsizer  As most designs I do now use width   s for fluid layouts across devices there is a slight adaptation to one of the loops  accounting for sizes that aren t always 100     for  var i   0  i  lt  images length  i          var image   images i           width   String image currentStyle width        if  width indexOf         -1            continue             image origWidth   image offsetWidth      image origHeight   image offsetHeight       imgCache push image       c ieAlpha image       image style width   width      EDIT  You may also be interested in jQuery CSS3 Finaliz s e

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For modern browsers  you can accomplish this by using background-size   body       background-image  url bg jpg       background-size  cover      cover means stretching the image either vertically or horizontally so it never tiles repeats   That would work for Safari 3  or later   Chrome  Opera 10   Firefox 3 6   and Internet nbsp Explorer nbsp 9  or later    For it to work with lower verions of Internet nbsp Explorer  try these CSS   filter  progid DXImageTransform Microsoft AlphaImageLoader src   myBackground jpg   sizingMethod  scale    -ms-filter   progid DXImageTransform Microsoft AlphaImageLoader src  myBackground jpg   sizingMethod  scale

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For modern browsers  you can accomplish this by using background-size   body       background-image  url bg jpg       background-size  cover      cover means stretching the image either vertically or horizontally so it never tiles repeats   That would work for Safari 3  or later   Chrome  Opera 10   Firefox 3 6   and Internet nbsp Explorer nbsp 9  or later    For it to work with lower verions of Internet nbsp Explorer  try these CSS   filter  progid DXImageTransform Microsoft AlphaImageLoader src   myBackground jpg   sizingMethod  scale    -ms-filter   progid DXImageTransform Microsoft AlphaImageLoader src  myBackground jpg   sizingMethod  scale

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Use the border-image   yourimage property to set your image and scale it upto the entire border of your screen or window

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Not currently  It will be available in CSS 3  but it will take some time until it s implemented in most browsers

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An additional tip for SolidSmile s cheat is to scale  the proportionate re-sizing  by setting a width and using auto for height   Ex     background       width  500px      height  auto      position  absolute       left  0px       top  0px       z-index  0

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In one word  no  The only way to stretch an image is with the  lt img gt  tag  You ll have to be creative   This used to be true in 2008  when the answer was written  Today modern browsers support background-size which solves this problem  Beware that IE8 doesn t support it

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Use the border-image   yourimage property to set your image and scale it upto the entire border of your screen or window

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Try this  http   jsfiddle net 5LZ55 4   body        background  url http   p1 pichost me i 40 1639647 jpg  no-repeat fixed       background-size  cover      -webkit-background-size  cover      -moz-background-size  cover      -o-background-size  cover

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Another great solution for this is Srobbin s Backstretch which can be applied to the body or any element on the page - http   srobbin com jquery-plugins backstretch

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An additional tip for SolidSmile s cheat is to scale  the proportionate re-sizing  by setting a width and using auto for height   Ex     background       width  500px      height  auto      position  absolute       left  0px       top  0px       z-index  0

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In one word  no  The only way to stretch an image is with the  lt img gt  tag  You ll have to be creative   This used to be true in 2008  when the answer was written  Today modern browsers support background-size which solves this problem  Beware that IE8 doesn t support it

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Define  stretch and scale      If you ve got a bitmap format  it s generally not great  graphically speaking  to stretch it and pull it about   You can use repeatable patterns to give the illusion of the same effect   For instance if you have a gradient that gets lighter towards the bottom of the page  then you would use a graphic that s a single pixel wide and the same height as your container  or preferably larger to account for scaling  and then tile it across the page   Likewise  if the gradient ran across the page  it would be one pixel high and wider than your container and repeated down the page   Normally to give the illusion of it stretching to fill the container when the container grows or shrinks  you make the image larger than the container   Any overlap would not be displayed outside the bounds of the container   If you want an effect that relies on something like a box with curved edges  then you would stick the left side of your box to the left side of your container with enough overlap that  within reason  no matter how large the container  it never runs out of background and then you layer an image of the right side of the box with curved edges and position it on the right of the container   Thus as the container shrinks or grows  the curved box effect appears to shrink or grow with it - it doesn t in fact  but it gives the illusion that is what s happening   As for really making the image shrink and grow with the container  you would need to use some layering tricks to make the image appear to function as a background and some javascript to resize it with the container   There s no current way of doing this with CSS     If you re using vector graphics  you re way outside my realm of expertise I m afraid

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Scaling an image with CSS is not quite possible  but a similar effect can be achieved in the following manner  though   Use this markup    lt div id  background  gt       lt img src  img jpg  class  stretch  alt      gt   lt  div gt    with the following CSS    background       width  100        height  100        position  absolute       left  0px       top  0px       z-index  0      stretch       width 100       height 100       and you should be done   In order to scale the image to be  full bleed  and maintain the aspect ratio  you can do this instead    stretch   min-width 100   min-height 100   width auto  height auto      It works out quite nicely  If one dimension is cropped  however  it will be cropped on only one side of the image  rather than being evenly cropped on both sides  and centered   I ve tested it in Firefox  Webkit  and Internet nbsp Explorer nbsp 8

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I would like to point out that this is equivalent to doing   html   width  100   height  100     body   width  100   height  100      Add background image or gradient to stretch here

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Define  stretch and scale      If you ve got a bitmap format  it s generally not great  graphically speaking  to stretch it and pull it about   You can use repeatable patterns to give the illusion of the same effect   For instance if you have a gradient that gets lighter towards the bottom of the page  then you would use a graphic that s a single pixel wide and the same height as your container  or preferably larger to account for scaling  and then tile it across the page   Likewise  if the gradient ran across the page  it would be one pixel high and wider than your container and repeated down the page   Normally to give the illusion of it stretching to fill the container when the container grows or shrinks  you make the image larger than the container   Any overlap would not be displayed outside the bounds of the container   If you want an effect that relies on something like a box with curved edges  then you would stick the left side of your box to the left side of your container with enough overlap that  within reason  no matter how large the container  it never runs out of background and then you layer an image of the right side of the box with curved edges and position it on the right of the container   Thus as the container shrinks or grows  the curved box effect appears to shrink or grow with it - it doesn t in fact  but it gives the illusion that is what s happening   As for really making the image shrink and grow with the container  you would need to use some layering tricks to make the image appear to function as a background and some javascript to resize it with the container   There s no current way of doing this with CSS     If you re using vector graphics  you re way outside my realm of expertise I m afraid

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Use the CSS 3 property background-size    my container       background-size  100  auto     width and height  can be    px or whatever         This is available for modern browsers  since 2012

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I would like to point out that this is equivalent to doing   html   width  100   height  100     body   width  100   height  100      Add background image or gradient to stretch here

User · Answer

Use the background-size attribute  in CSS3    class        background-image  url bg gif        background-size  100       EDIT  Modernizr supports detection of background-size support  You can use a JavaScript workaround written to work however you need it and load it dynamically when there is no support  This will keep the code maintainable without resorting to intrusive CSS hacks for certain browsers   Personally I use a script to deal with it using jQuery  its an adaption of imgsizer  As most designs I do now use width   s for fluid layouts across devices there is a slight adaptation to one of the loops  accounting for sizes that aren t always 100     for  var i   0  i  lt  images length  i          var image   images i           width   String image currentStyle width        if  width indexOf         -1            continue             image origWidth   image offsetWidth      image origHeight   image offsetHeight       imgCache push image       c ieAlpha image       image style width   width      EDIT  You may also be interested in jQuery CSS3 Finaliz s e

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Add a background-attachment line    background       background-attachment fixed      width  100        height  100        position  absolute       margin-left  0px       margin-top  0px       z-index  0      stretch       width 100       height auto

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Define  stretch and scale      If you ve got a bitmap format  it s generally not great  graphically speaking  to stretch it and pull it about   You can use repeatable patterns to give the illusion of the same effect   For instance if you have a gradient that gets lighter towards the bottom of the page  then you would use a graphic that s a single pixel wide and the same height as your container  or preferably larger to account for scaling  and then tile it across the page   Likewise  if the gradient ran across the page  it would be one pixel high and wider than your container and repeated down the page   Normally to give the illusion of it stretching to fill the container when the container grows or shrinks  you make the image larger than the container   Any overlap would not be displayed outside the bounds of the container   If you want an effect that relies on something like a box with curved edges  then you would stick the left side of your box to the left side of your container with enough overlap that  within reason  no matter how large the container  it never runs out of background and then you layer an image of the right side of the box with curved edges and position it on the right of the container   Thus as the container shrinks or grows  the curved box effect appears to shrink or grow with it - it doesn t in fact  but it gives the illusion that is what s happening   As for really making the image shrink and grow with the container  you would need to use some layering tricks to make the image appear to function as a background and some javascript to resize it with the container   There s no current way of doing this with CSS     If you re using vector graphics  you re way outside my realm of expertise I m afraid

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This is what I ve made of it  In the stretch class  I simply changed the height to auto  This way your background picture has always got the same size as the width of the screen and the height will allways have the right size    background       width  100       height  100       position  absolute      margin-left  0px      margin-top  0px      z-index  0      stretch       width 100       height auto

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style1           background  url images bg jpg  no-repeat center center fixed          -webkit-background-size  cover          -moz-background-size  cover          -o-background-size  cover          background-size  cover      Works in    Safari 3   Chrome Whatever   IE 9   Opera 10   Opera 9 5 supported background-size but not the keywords  Firefox 3 6   Firefox 4 supports non-vendor prefixed version    In addition you can try this for an ie solution      filter  progid DXImageTransform Microsoft AlphaImageLoader src   myBackground jpg   sizingMethod  scale        -ms-filter   progid DXImageTransform Microsoft AlphaImageLoader src  myBackground jpg   sizingMethod  scale         zoom 1    Credit to this article by Chris Coyier http   css-tricks com perfect-full-page-background-image

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Scaling an image with CSS is not quite possible  but a similar effect can be achieved in the following manner  though   Use this markup    lt div id  background  gt       lt img src  img jpg  class  stretch  alt      gt   lt  div gt    with the following CSS    background       width  100        height  100        position  absolute       left  0px       top  0px       z-index  0      stretch       width 100       height 100       and you should be done   In order to scale the image to be  full bleed  and maintain the aspect ratio  you can do this instead    stretch   min-width 100   min-height 100   width auto  height auto      It works out quite nicely  If one dimension is cropped  however  it will be cropped on only one side of the image  rather than being evenly cropped on both sides  and centered   I ve tested it in Firefox  Webkit  and Internet nbsp Explorer nbsp 8

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In one word  no  The only way to stretch an image is with the  lt img gt  tag  You ll have to be creative   This used to be true in 2008  when the answer was written  Today modern browsers support background-size which solves this problem  Beware that IE8 doesn t support it

User · Answer

Define  stretch and scale      If you ve got a bitmap format  it s generally not great  graphically speaking  to stretch it and pull it about   You can use repeatable patterns to give the illusion of the same effect   For instance if you have a gradient that gets lighter towards the bottom of the page  then you would use a graphic that s a single pixel wide and the same height as your container  or preferably larger to account for scaling  and then tile it across the page   Likewise  if the gradient ran across the page  it would be one pixel high and wider than your container and repeated down the page   Normally to give the illusion of it stretching to fill the container when the container grows or shrinks  you make the image larger than the container   Any overlap would not be displayed outside the bounds of the container   If you want an effect that relies on something like a box with curved edges  then you would stick the left side of your box to the left side of your container with enough overlap that  within reason  no matter how large the container  it never runs out of background and then you layer an image of the right side of the box with curved edges and position it on the right of the container   Thus as the container shrinks or grows  the curved box effect appears to shrink or grow with it - it doesn t in fact  but it gives the illusion that is what s happening   As for really making the image shrink and grow with the container  you would need to use some layering tricks to make the image appear to function as a background and some javascript to resize it with the container   There s no current way of doing this with CSS     If you re using vector graphics  you re way outside my realm of expertise I m afraid

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Try this  http   jsfiddle net 5LZ55 4   body        background  url http   p1 pichost me i 40 1639647 jpg  no-repeat fixed       background-size  cover      -webkit-background-size  cover      -moz-background-size  cover      -o-background-size  cover

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This is what I ve made of it  In the stretch class  I simply changed the height to auto  This way your background picture has always got the same size as the width of the screen and the height will allways have the right size    background       width  100       height  100       position  absolute      margin-left  0px      margin-top  0px      z-index  0      stretch       width 100       height auto

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Try the article background-size  If you use all of the following  it will work in most browsers except Internet nbsp Explorer    foo       background-image  url bg-image png       -moz-background-size  100  100       -o-background-size  100  100       -webkit-background-size  100  100        background-size  100  100

User · Answer

Scaling an image with CSS is not quite possible  but a similar effect can be achieved in the following manner  though   Use this markup    lt div id  background  gt       lt img src  img jpg  class  stretch  alt      gt   lt  div gt    with the following CSS    background       width  100        height  100        position  absolute       left  0px       top  0px       z-index  0      stretch       width 100       height 100       and you should be done   In order to scale the image to be  full bleed  and maintain the aspect ratio  you can do this instead    stretch   min-width 100   min-height 100   width auto  height auto      It works out quite nicely  If one dimension is cropped  however  it will be cropped on only one side of the image  rather than being evenly cropped on both sides  and centered   I ve tested it in Firefox  Webkit  and Internet nbsp Explorer nbsp 8

User · Answer

Not currently  It will be available in CSS 3  but it will take some time until it s implemented in most browsers

User · Answer

Scaling an image with CSS is not quite possible  but a similar effect can be achieved in the following manner  though   Use this markup    lt div id  background  gt       lt img src  img jpg  class  stretch  alt      gt   lt  div gt    with the following CSS    background       width  100        height  100        position  absolute       left  0px       top  0px       z-index  0      stretch       width 100       height 100       and you should be done   In order to scale the image to be  full bleed  and maintain the aspect ratio  you can do this instead    stretch   min-width 100   min-height 100   width auto  height auto      It works out quite nicely  If one dimension is cropped  however  it will be cropped on only one side of the image  rather than being evenly cropped on both sides  and centered   I ve tested it in Firefox  Webkit  and Internet nbsp Explorer nbsp 8

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Not currently  It will be available in CSS 3  but it will take some time until it s implemented in most browsers

User · Answer

Add a background-attachment line    background       background-attachment fixed      width  100        height  100        position  absolute       margin-left  0px       margin-top  0px       z-index  0      stretch       width 100       height auto

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Another great solution for this is Srobbin s Backstretch which can be applied to the body or any element on the page - http   srobbin com jquery-plugins backstretch

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