Background on fixed navigation bar not appearing - css

I currently have a DIV containing my fixed navigation bar in hopes to have a background image spanning across the screen behind the nav bar while the screen scrolls. However, the background isn't showing up. I tried this tip, but it didn't seem to work.
Here's my site:
http://www.whiterabbitstudio.us/
and this is the background thati's supposed to line up behind the navigation ribbon:
http://www.whiterabbitstudio.us/1images/head_bkg.png
Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks!!

It's hard to tell what you're actually trying to do, but at the moment you specified the head_bkg.png to be the background image of the <div class="header">...</div> element which has a height of 0px, thus not showing any background.
To show the background properly, I'd say you should add it to the navigation div and rework the layout of that part quite some bit, e.g. no negative margin-left, make the width 100%, center the content and add a background-size: 100%;
Besides, if you want to have the background continuous, you need to crop the image to avoid the transparent parts above and below.

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place background image on nav bar and allow over flow into next section

I would like to place a background image i made behind my nav bar that is responsive to the viewport (gets smaller when the window gets smaller). The image looks like this:
Nav Bar Background Image
I would like the black band to be behind the nav bar and for the arm to then go into the next section. I would like the text of the next p to not over lap the arm and to align around it.
Is it possible to do this using CSS? Using HTML5.
Many thanks
Since the black bar behind the navigation is just a rectangle, you can use CSS to set a background-color of #000 on a div for your navigation bar, have it be 100% width, and set a height on it. Then, simply put your navigation text/buttons inside of that div.
From there, you can have just the arm be a background image for the next element in your HTML, and use background-position: top right to align it to the right side of the page and top so that it touches the black navigation bar.
Hope that helps! Let me know if you need more help and I can do something in a codepen real quick :D

CSS - Background Image Stretch

I'm trying to get a similar background effect that's on this website:
By looking at it, the background of the website is black, but has a horizontally stretched background image that remains at the top of the page. When the page is scrolled down, the image stays at the top but blends into the background color.
I tried making an image like the one in the example and used background-size:cover but when I scroll down, the image stays static and just the contents scroll. If that makes any sense at all!!
By looking at the example, could somebody kindly explain what CSS is needed to achieve this? And also, what should the image size be (in PS), to allow it to stretch in larger browsers without losing quality?
I tried looking at the website's CSS file to see what was happening, but it's all on one line and confusing to work out.
I would add a link to the site to show how it scrolls, but apparently I'm not allowed, so a screenshot will have to do.
Many thanks in advance.
It looks like that background uses the css:
background:#000000 url(<img>) no-repeat scroll center top;
Which sets a background colour AND image, places the image statically at the top, so that after scrolling down, the background colour is only visible.
To see this effect, using chrome, change the css to:
background:#00FF00 url(<img>) no-repeat scroll center top;
and you will see what is going on.

Way to make content that scrolls under a navigation bar invisible but the bar have transparency

I have no idea how to go about this:
I have a full-screen background image, a navigation bar with 50% transparency fixed to the top, and content below it. How can I have the navigation bar maintain transparency over the background image, and still have scrolling content?
The issue right now is that when I scroll down, the content goes under the navigation bar, and shows through the transparency, which obviously looks awful.
Basically, I want the content of the page to scroll and disappear at the bottom of the navigation bar. I know I could make the navigation bar opaque and use a background image for that too, but I'd rather just have the one full-screen background image.
Thoughts?
Put the contents in a block (div) that has fixed size, say stretch it to the whole page except the size of the navigation bar. Then make that div scrollable with css property overflow:scroll
I know this is very old but I spent a lot of time looking for the answer and found a good solution so I will post it for anyone else looking for it.
Place the navbar in the element containing the background image and set the navbar's background to inherit. This prevents content from appearing behind the navbar as you scroll down.

Footer Background Image - Entire Page Width?

I have an image that I want to use as a background-image for my footer. Its sort of a gradient image, so the will be white, and the image will fade from its color, to white. It's not really a repeatable image though.
If I want it to always span the entire width of the page, is this possible without a background-repeat? Or, because of different monitor sizes, will this be impossible?
The background image I want should only be in the footer of the page. Like a sticky-footer, it should always stick to the bottom and the content will push it down as needed. It's about 400px in height.
It could still be a background (positioned bottom-center) but it can;t take up the whole height, just the width. And it need to be able to be pushed down (not fixed)
If you're comfortable using CSS3 you can use
background: #fff url(image.jpg) center center fixed no-repeat;
background-size:cover;
to have the image cover the screen. You'll want to be careful that it is at least a decent resolution though.

Strange CSS behaviour

I'm doing HTML and CSS for a site, and I've come across a very weird bug / behaviour that I can't pin down.
Take a look at http://www.atelierhsl.nl/antwerp/. There's a white line through the logo at the top. If I display:none the navigation at the bottom of the page, it disappears. But when I increase the bottom padding of the text column (.entry-content) it reappears again. This happens in Webkit, Mozilla and IE, so I know I must be doing something wrong. I just can't figure out what. Anybody?
This is caused by an anti-aliased line on the top your body's background images (just 1 pixel of light gray). The simple answer is to crop it using an image editor.
You may want to align the image to the top:
background: url("/wp-content/themes/transfer/images/bg.jpg") no-repeat scroll center top #1D1D88
The main problem is that the background image isn't as big as the the area it should cover.
Kobi's answer is correct, but if you don't mind a design suggestion: Rather than putting a black background image at no-repeat top for the body, separate body content into a container and a footer. For the content background use a smaller background image and tile it, or set the background color to black, since it appears you have no gradient. The footer div can then have a white background (inherited from the body, or just assigned directly).
You page is logically divided into main content and a footer, so the HTML should express that.
There is two solutions:
Just changed the body padding top from 60 to 40 or
changed the background position from center center to center top
I think, you should cut a 1px line from your background and to repeat-y it. There will be no bug, and you will decrease the image weight.

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