Is there any reason for when using html5 boilerplate to set up a website using
body {
background-image: url(../images/beach.png) no-repeat center center fixed;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
}
in the css won't load an image for me, but using just
body {
background: url(../images/beach.png) no-repeat center center fixed;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
}
works?
If you're using background-image, you can only use this property to set the background image. Values that belong to other properties cannot be set. In this case, you're trying to set values for properties which do not belong to the background-image property.
This is possible if you're using the background property, which you can use to set any background-related property.
I guess you must use double quotation.
background-image: url("paper.gif");
background-image is a directive to set only the file of background image.
Other properties can be set with these directives:
background-color
background-image
background-repeat
background-attachment
background-position
background only is a shorthand that permits to use one or more directive above.
The background shorthand property sets all the background properties in one declaration.
More infos on w3school site
Try this:
body {
background-image:url(../images/beach.png) center center fixed;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
// rest of your code
}
Related
I have got a website that looks like this:
<div id="top" class="header-container2">...</div>
<div class="main-container">...</div>
The first div is the header section and the second the main content area with products and so on. Now I want a full background image and I tried like this:
html {
background: url(someimage.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
}
Did not work, no image shown. On the body element it does not work either. Only when I assign the exact same CSS to the main-container div, it works, but the image is not shown as background on the div with id top of course. So, how could I assign the background image without having to think about the structure of the site? Possible at all?
I double checked the path of the image, so thats not the problem.
Set html height to 100vh or 100%
html {
background: url(someimage.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
height: 100vh;
}
These are the default CSS which we set on top of, while writing custom styles like body,html to 100%
And also its good to provide minimal HTML and CSS of your working code.
first, make sure your two divs don't have a background property, otherwise you can simply englobe them in a containing div and assign the background to it.
You can also use the body, I think. Do you use any CSS resets?
body {
background: url(https://images.pexels.com/photos/1227511/pexels-photo-1227511.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=750&w=1260) no-repeat center center fixed;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
}
div {background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.7);margin-bottom:10px;padding:10px;}
<div id="top" class="header-container2">header-container2</div>
<div class="main-container">main-container</div>
To make the page cover the window height, you might try:
html,
body {
height: 100%;
}
I have a chrome extension that lets me add css to any website. I am trying to put a background using an image on my harddrive, but can't get it to work.
For this example I am using www.google.com
If it makes a difference, the chrome extension I am using is called Stylebot
This the CSS I added
body {
background:#F9F0C9 url("file:///C:/Users/username/OneDrive/Documents/PaperPAge/5-wrinkled-parchment-paper1final2.png") center center fixed;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
}
The #F9F0C9 color is added to the background, so something is working, but selected background image does not appear.
Stylebot is a Chrome extension and thus all scripts, including the CSS parser, are written in JavaScript. #C.Dhruv is correct, there is no Chrome method for arbitrarily reading files from a user's local disk without prompting them. If possible, I would recommend uploading the image to either your own public-facing webserver or some image hosting site and reference the URL accordingly in your code snippet above.
Please change background to background-image
then your code will be
body {
background-color:#F9F0C9;
background-image:url("file:///C:/Users/username/OneDrive/Documents/PaperPAge/5-wrinkled-parchment-paper1final2.png") center center fixed;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
}
I want to have different background images for different subpages (i.e. "Menu" has a image #1, "Contact us" has image #2 etc.)
I have the following css code:
html {
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;
}
But this sets one image to every subpage. Now I can make each subpage have a different div in the html (e.g. div id="menubg"; div id="contactusbg") and add the above CSS (slightly changed) for each div, but then I create a ton of unnecessary CSS items.
So, is there a better way to do it?
Should I put the background image into the HTML directly and add one css to that image? Is that doable with the preservation of all CSS properties like "cover"? (Ideally I would like to have a code for the image in in each HTML and one CSS for all subpages, can I do that?)
Is using JavaScript (or other) a good/better soultion?
Is making multiple CSS styles the only solution?
Thanks!
The way I normally do this is to give the body the background, not the html. You will want to give your body an id name of the page it's on.
First of all, you want to blanket all of your body elements as well as putting all of your extra background information into their own lines:
body {
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center;
background-attachment:fixed;
}
then, if you want img1 on menu and img2 on contact us, give your body and ID of one of the two:
<body id="menu">
then in your CSS you just write in your background-image property by itself:
body#menu {
background-image: url(images/bg1.jpg);
}
and the same with your contact us page:
<body id="contact-us">
-
body#contact-us {
background-image: url(images/bg2.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;
}
So your CSS file ends up looking like this:
body {
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center;
background-attachment:fixed;
}
body#menu {
background-image: url(images/bg1.jpg);
}
body#contact-us {
background-image: url(images/bg2.jpg);
}
My website has THE PERFECT FULL PAGE BACKGROUND IMAGE. I grabbed the code for it from css tricks.
If you visit my site you can see it in action: <site no longer available>
What I'd like to know is, is there a way I can have this image change to a different image once you scroll a certain length?
My aim is to have the same image but with a speech bubble coming out of the dogs mouth and I'm guessing 2 images will do this.
Is this possible to do in CSS only?
Here is the code I am currently using.
html {
background: url(http://robt.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/funny-kids-comic-animals.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
}
As others already said, Nop, you can't only with CSS, but a little js code can do it for you.
Ex.
jQuery(window).scroll(function(){
var fromTopPx = 200; // distance to trigger
var scrolledFromtop = jQuery(window).scrollTop();
if(scrolledFromtop > fromTopPx){
jQuery('html').addClass('scrolled');
}else{
jQuery('html').removeClass('scrolled');
}
});
And in your CSS file:
html {
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center center;
background-attachment: fixed;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
}
html {
background-image:url(http://robt.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/funny-kids-comic-animals.jpg);
}
html.scrolled {
background-image:url(http://robt.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/funny-kids-comic-animals_2.jpg);
}
So basically you are adding or removing a class to the HTML tag at some distance from the top with javascript (jQuery in this case)... and with CSS, changing that image.
Now on.. you can apply some transitions to the image, or play with the code to made it slideToggle for example instead changing the class.... and many many other options.
Good luck
EDIT:
Fiddle example: http://jsfiddle.net/pZrCM/
I am trying to achieve something like this with CSS:
I'd like to keep the body background image fixed on fullscreen, this is sort of done by the following code:
body
{
background: url(../img/beach.jpg) no-repeat fixed 100% 100%;
}
Now I can verify the window is indeed filled up with that image, at least this works on my Firefox 3.6
However, it screwed up when I tried to zoom in/out (ctrl+-/+), the image just is stretched/shrinked as the page zooms.
Is there a better way of doing this purely with CSS? I didn't find a good property for the background-image.
Or should I start thinking about jQuery to manipulate the width and height on the fly? They were both set to 100% so I reckon that should work "as always" :(
Thanks for any suggestion in advance!
there is another technique
use
background-size:cover
That is it
full set of css is
body {
background: url('images/body-bg.jpg') no-repeat center center fixed;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
}
Latest browsers support the default property.
I've used these techniques before and they both work well. If you read the pros/cons of each you can decide which is right for your site.
Alternatively you could use the full size background image jQuery plugin if you want to get away from the bugs in the above.
You can do quite a lot with plain css...the css property background-size can be set to a number of things as well as just cover as Ranjith pointed out.
The background-size: cover setting scales the image to cover the entire screen but may mean that some of the image is off screen if the aspect ratio of the screen and image are different.
A good alternative is background-size: contain which resizes the background image to fit the smaller of width and height, ensuring that the whole image is visible but may lead to letterboxing if the aspect ratios are different.
For example:
body {
background: url(/images/bkgd.png) no-repeat rgb(30,30,30) fixed center center;
background-size: contain;
}
The other options that I find less useful are:
background-size: length <widthpx> <heightpx> which sets the absolute size of the background image.
background-size: percentage <width> <height> background image is a percentage of the window size.
(see w3schools.com's page)
Add this in your css file:
.custom_class
{
background-image: url(../img/beach.jpg);
-moz-background-size: cover;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
}
and then, in your .html (or .php) file call this class like that:
<div class="custom_class">
...
</div>
Here is the simple code for full page background image when zooming
you just apply the width:100% in style/css thats it
position:absolute; width:100%;
Use Directly like this
.bg-div{
background: url(../img/beach.jpg) no-repeat fixed 100% 100%;
}
or call CSS separately like
.bg-div{
background-image: url(../img/beach.jpg);
-moz-background-size: cover;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
}