URL to my website is http://chris-schilling-jksc.squarespace.com/
Password to get into site is fsj
I am using a Squarespace template which is causing me problems in making my main header image larger. Currently it is fairly zoomed in cutting off a lot of the picture. I am looking for some css to fix this problem. Squarespace templates are responsive making it hard to customize certain aspects. If someone knew a fix to my problem it would be greatly appreciated.
The reason the image is 'zoomed in' is because the background-size is set to cover. As the screen gets wider, the image must be stretched both horizontally and vertically to maintain the correct aspect ratio. The only real fix here would be to use a more narrow image, although it will then be 'zoomed in' at some aspect ratios on smaller screens.
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I'm running into a problem. When I view my website on a computer and phone, it's built perfectly; but, when I pull it up on an iPad, the background images are like blown up. My website is http://www.zwdalpha.com/, any help will be very appreciated! Also, my Github is https://github.com/zcsmouse970/zwdalpha
To address the issue, you first need to understand what is happening. Background image sizes are handled with the background-size attribute, which you currently have set to cover. cover is great for large screens because it makes sure the image "covers" the height of the element. This allows for clipping on the sides to make sure it fills from top to bottom. contain is the opposite of that. It makes sure you can see the entire image at all times. It does this by making sure the width is 100% and the height is left to clip or expand. When you see on tablets and smaller that the images are "blown up", the CSS is making sure that the entire content area is filled with the image, and it does this by making sure the height of the image fills the content pane. Here's where we get a little more detailed.
You have your images setup as fixed. Obviously this was the effect you were going for, but lets think about what needs to happen here. Now the image needs to be covering the screen from top to bottom because it is able to be viewed anywhere the content pane is while being fixed. So now your image is covering the entire viewport. You can see the changes it makes when you change it to background-attachment:scroll;. It instead fits the image into the content pane instead of the viewport.
All of that being said, the way you can change this is by implementing media queries and switching backgrounds to cropped versions that are more appropriate to the viewing dimensions.
Your issue appears to be to do with background-attachment: fixed not behaving as expected.
Try background-attachment: scroll
I'm building some responsive WP themes with the idea/hope to make it super-easy for an end-user to setup a simple site that looks good. This is my first attempt at learning responsive as well and can't quite get a complicated logo / company name / tagline feature worked out. Proportional, centered, unknown widths, oh my!
You can see a mockup of some of the different situations we'd like to handle at http://screencast.com/t/G8O1G4aY. The left shows a rectangle logo, a square logo, then a square logo with some text and a square logo with more text.
The right side shows how we'd like the responsiveness to look, as the screen gets smaller. The image starts reducing from a max-height of 200px-ish to 100px-ish and the font-size starts reducing as well.
Hoping to not have to rely on breakpoints to set the sizes. We've already accepted that were going to have a 'you have JS turned off, its ugly this way' message, so something like http://simplefocus.com/flowtype/ to adjust the font-sizes would be quite alright.
Can it be done?? Can get into more javascript to solve if needed, but hoping for as much CSS handling as possible.
Thanks much for any help! Keep getting this piece or that - but can't get them all together.
Philip
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So my wordless theme has a built in slider. It is responsive. The slider is in the background and seems to have a height of 100%. On browsers that are normal width but tall this means that a lot of the image is hidden behind the white background of the content lower down the page. If you resize the page while the slider is on the slide image of the queen you will see why this is a problem. My boss would like it to always show her heard and shoulders.
Is there a way of, on longer shaped browser windows, stopping the image from being 100% height and therefore making it display better on longer height browsers as well as normal shaped ones?
As you can probably tell I'm kind of out of my depth on this one, so any help would be fantastic!
Thanks
Luckily for you there is a quick fix on this particular slider. The elements are set to have a background-attachment of fixed on #slider-container .full-bg-image. Clear it and the whole picture will display. You should then be able to use the background-position to align more specifically for mobile, or only have the fixed position for desktop use with a media query. I'm not sure what method the powers that be would like best :)
Okay I found this tutorial "Stretchy Image Header Banner with CSS" but the problem (as it listed in this tutorial is) is the height. The height gets real big as the browser is enlarge. Is there a way to resolve this? Since the banner would expand in proportion, the height will have to get bigger but I wonder if there is a better way to do this. Is there a way to start cropping the banner from the top by certain percentages as the banner is getting bigger? Any suggestion is much appreciated.
Set a max-height on the image to prevent it from getting to large vertically.
http://jsfiddle.net/8C9ms/
I have looked at many different peoples answers to this problem but they only account for one image.
I am having a problem with the the two images that i have placed in my header, when i resize my browser i want them to scale down with it so that they dont displace my whole site.
i have it hosted in dropbox so you can see what my problem is: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/13722201/Dorset%20Designs/home.html
also another problem im having is un attaching the footer from the bottom of the screen and putting it below the body so users have to scroll down.
p.s I attached the footer to the bottom many months ago and I forgot how to undo it.
SORRY FOR THE TERRIBLY MESSY CODE
thanks in advance
Arran, 16
Here's how I'd do it. First, style each image using CSS to have width:100% and height:auto. This makes them respond to the sizes of their containers. Lose those width and height attributes from the img tag - I'm not even sure if those are valid anymore.
Now here's where the clever part comes. Your images are 550px and 298px wide, which is roughly a 65%:35% ratio. When the header is at its most narrow point before breaking, it's about as wide as the sum of the two. So give the big image's container max-width:65%, and the small image's container div max-width:35%.
This way, when the browser window is smaller, the images scale down correspondingly - and don't become larger than they need to be when the window is wide. I tried it out on your page, and I think it worked - see if it works for you. :)