On my new webpage (http://patrick-ott.de/ -- it is getting there ;), I seem to have encountered a problem. At the very end there is a promise for a non black/white-version but it does not show the fully colored image. That is fine, I do not want the background to scale in width (or maybe when the resolution of the display exceeds the one of the image) but I do want to see the full-length version of the background, so essentially you can keep scrolling longer. Any ideas on how to do this smart? Right now the CSS for the background is as simple as this:
.colorbox {
background-image: url(pictures/colorbackground.jpg);
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
position: relative; }
set background-size
background-size: 100% 100%;
Add this to your CSS:
background-repeat: round round;
That should do the trick. But this is a pretty new feature in CSS so it will work if you expect your users to be using IE9+ and other modern browsers.
I have a table with a few images and I like the auto layout: it gives me exactly the sizing I want.
My problem is that I want to scale the whole table equally, which works fine with Chrome by setting a width size. However, with Firefox or Internet Explorer, the table won't re-size and all images are displayed at 100%
table.quad
{
background: #F0F0F0;
border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;
/*table-layout: fixed;*/
width: 100%;
}
Source is here: http://jsfiddle.net/7br0prdq/
Sub-question: I would like to have the same layout without the trick I used on image 1 (this image is set as a background image of the cell, not an <img /> like the others are)
you might have the same issue as descriped here:
Auto Image resize with broswer window using img max-width: 100% works in Chrome but not IE when parent div has position: absolute
Try using 100% width on Parent, as said in the comment.
best regards paulqq
Is there a way to position a background image a certain number of pixels from the right of its element?
For example, to position something a certain number of pixels (say, 10) from the left, this is how I'd do it:
#myElement {
background-position: 10px 0;
}
I found this CSS3 feature helpful:
/* to position the element 10px from the right */
background-position: right 10px top;
As far as I know this is not supported in IE8. In latest Chrome/Firefox it works fine.
See Can I use for details on the supported browsers.
Used source: http://tanalin.com/en/blog/2011/09/css3-background-position/
Update:
This feature is now supported in all major browsers, including mobile browsers.
!! Outdated answer, since CSS3 brought this feature
Is there a way to position a background image a certain number of pixels from the right of its element?
Nope.
Popular workarounds include
setting a margin-right on the element instead
adding transparent pixels to the image itself and positioning it top right
or calculating the position using jQuery after the element's width is known.
The easiest solution is to use percentages. This isn't exactly the answer you were looking for since you asked for pixel-precision, but if you just need something to have a little padding between the right edge and the image, giving something a position of 99% usually works well enough.
Code:
/* aligns image to the vertical center and horizontal right of its container with a small amount of padding between the right edge */
div.middleleft {
background: url("/images/source.jpg") 99% center no-repeat;
}
Outdated answer: It is now implemented in major browsers, see the
other answers to this question.
CSS3 has modified the specification of background-position so that it will work with different origin point. Unfortunately, I can't find any evidence that it is implemented yet in any major browsers.
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#the-background-position
See example 12.
background-position: right 3em bottom 10px;
As proposed here, this is a pretty cross browser solution that works perfectly:
background: url('/img.png') no-repeat right center;
border-right: 10px solid transparent;
I used it since the CSS3 feature of specifying offsets proposed in the answer marked as solving the question is not supported in browsers so well yet. E.g.
The most appropriate answer is the new four-value syntax for background-position, but until all browsers support it your best approach is a combination of earlier responses in the following order:
background: url(image.png) no-repeat 97% center; /* default, Android, Sf < 6 */
background-position: -webkit-calc(100% - 10px) center; /* Sf 6 */
background-position: right 10px center; /* Cr 25+, FF 13+, IE 9+, Op 10.5+ */
A simple but dirty trick is to simply add the offset you want to the image you are using as background. it's not maintainable, but it gets the job done.
This will work on most modern browsers...apart from IE (browser support). Even though that page lists >= IE9 as supported, my tests didn't agree with that.
You can use the calc() css3 property like so;
.class_name {
background-position: calc(100% - 10px) 50%;
}
For me this is the cleanest and most logical way to achieve a margin to the right. I also use a fallback of using border-right: 10px solid transparent; for IE.
Ok If I understand what your asking you would do this;
You have your DIV container called #main-container and .my-element that is within it. Use this to get you started;
#main-container {
position:relative;
}
/*To make the element absolute - floats above all else within the parent container do this.*/
.my-element {
position:absolute;
top:0;
right:10px;
}
/*To make the element apart of elements, something tangible that affects the position of other elements on the same level within the parent then do this;*/
.my-element {
float:right;
margin-right:10px;
}
By the way, it better practice to use classes if you referencing a lower level element within a page (I assume you are hence my name change above.
background-position: calc(100% - 8px);
The CSS3 specification allowing different origins for background-position is now supported in Firefox 14 but still not in Chrome 21 (apparently IE9 partly supports them, but I've not tested it myself)
In addition to the Chrome issue that #MattyF referenced there's a more succinct summary here:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=95085
If you have proportioned elements, you could use:
.valid {
background-position: 98% center;
}
.half .valid {
background-position: 96% center;
}
In this example, .valid would be the class with the picture and .half would be a row with half the size of the standard one.
Dirty, but works as a charm and it's reasonably manageable.
If you would like to use this for adding arrows/other icons to a button for example then you could use css pseudo-elements?
If it's really a background-image for the whole button, I tend to incorporate the spacing into the image, and just use
background-position: right 0;
But if I have to add for example a designed arrow to a button, I tend to have this html:
Read more
And tend to do the following with CSS:
.read-more{
position: relative;
padding: 6px 15px 6px 35px;//to create space on the right
font-size: 13px;
font-family: Arial;
}
.read-more:after{
content: '';
display: block;
width: 10px;
height: 15px;
background-image: url('../images/btn-white-arrow-right.png');
position: absolute;
right: 12px;
top: 10px;
}
By using the :after selector, I add a element using CSS just to contain this small icon. You could do the same by just adding a span or <i> element inside the a-element. But I think this is a cleaner way of adding icons to buttons and it is cross-browser supported.
you can check out the fiddle here:
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/PNzYzZ
use center right as the position then add a transparent border to offset it?
If you have a fixed width element and know the width of your background image, you can simply set the background-position to : the element's width - the image's width - the gap you want on the right.
For example : with a 100px-wide element and a 300px-wide image, to get a gap of 10px on the right, you set it to 100-300-10=-210px :
#myElement {
background:url(my_image.jpg) no-repeat -210px top;
width:100px;
}
And you get the rightmost 80 pixels of your image on the left of your element, and a gap of 20px on the right.
I know it can sound stupid but sometimes it saves the time... I use that much in a vertical manner (gap at bottom) for navigation links with text below image.
Not sure it applies to your case though.
my problem was I needed the background image to stay the same distance from the right border when the window is resized i.e. for tablet / mobile etc
My fix is to use a percenatge like so:
background-position: 98% 6px;
and it sticks in place.
yes! well to position a background image as though 0px from the right-hand side of the browser instead of the left - i use:
background-position: 100% 0px;
I have an absolutely-positioned DIV that I need to trap onclick events for. It turns out that, in IE7, the DIV seems to have no 'footprint' for things like clicking and even cursor. For example:
div {
width: 200px; height: 200px;
position: absolute;
border: 10px solid black;
cursor: pointer;
}
In IE7, that DIV has no 'footprint': it doesn't react to onclick(), and its cursor doesn't change to the pointer. Curiously, it DOES handle both those over its border - hence the large border in this example. Setting a background-color:
div { background-color: #fff; }
fixes the problem. But, in this case, that's not possible - I need the DIV to have a transparent background.
I've come across this bug in the past, but I cannot for the life of me remember the IE hack to fix it.
Try using a transparent background image.
I would suggest using a 2x2 or bigger .gif that is all transparent pixels. Set it to repeat on x and y and IE shouldn't have an issue with the clicks.
background: transparent url(path/to/spacer.gif) repeat left top;
/* Not all of that is necessary, but I have a tendency to define it anyway. */
Had the same problem and didnt found a better solution than the transparent gif. Note that this problem also occured in IE8 for me. You don't have to use a 2x2 px gif, 1x1 px is enough.
How do you scale an image added in :before or :after in CSS?
For example, I have a page which contains a book cover:
<span class="book">
<img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41t7xMPK%2B6L.jpg" />
</span>
I want to use CSS to make it look more like a book, rather than just a cover. I can use :before to add a second image to do this, but as all books vary in size, I need to be able to scale this image to fit the book cover.
I have tried
.book:before{
content:url("/images/book.png");
position:absolute;
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
but this doesn't work in scaling the image.
you can scale it:
transform: scale(0.7);
but it won't work with px or %.
The generated image is always displayed 1:1. You cannot scale it. When you fix the size of the generated element, that works well. You could check it with the following CSS attributes:
#logo-image:before
{
display: block;
content: url(img/logo.png);
width: 300px;
height: 100px;
border: solid 1px red;
overflow: scroll; /* alternative: hidden */
}
You can see the red border at the specified size, and the image content is clipped. But if you leave out the overflow:scroll, you will see the image exceeding its element.
(Tested on Firefox 11)
Try setting a min-height and a max-height for both of them to the same value, It should then scale the images to the correct size while keeping the correct aspect ratio. (And do that with the width, depending on which one you want to scale)