CSS Background Image - css

I've asked this question before : CSS Background Image
Its not as such a repeated question though. In that I've now got a set image size of 1280 x 1024. But the problem I've got is that on larger screens the background etc dissapears. In the previous question it was suggested to try keep the elements fixed.
Does anyone have a solution for me on how to get this design to work on larger / smaller screen sizes? I've considered making the image 12 times and try find some JavaScript to get the browser size then start the background image based on that?
I'm aware of other issues on the page. I just want to get the background sorted first.
An example of my page is HERE
Thanks in advance.

Remove the background image from body and add it in html: <img src="http://www.stuartblackett.com/picturebook/images/bg1.jpg" id="background" />
Then in your css add the following:
#background {
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/XW9Pz/

Will it work to set
background-attachment:fixed;
?
See: http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_background-attachment

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CSS Help Responsive Theme

I'm having a big issue with something so "small" I can't figure it out and I'm reaching out to everyone here. The issue I'm having is this:
I have photos which are roughly 512px or 800px wide I want to fit, CENTERED, in a circle display area and keep my hover effects. I also need to size them the photos so the centered part shows a decent amount of the photo.
The current code I'm working with will make them perfect circles IF the photos are perfect squares. The problem is when the photo is a rectangle, it turns into an oval.
I had created a div like below using overflow:hidden and the css but it conflicted with the current CSS. Any help would be appreciated immensely!
.thumby {
width:200px;
margin: 0 auto;
overflow:hidden;
position: relative;
height: 200px;
border-radius: 100% 100% 100% 100%;
}
img.absolutely {
left: 50%;
margin-left: -256px;
top: 50%;
margin-top: -200px;
position:absolute;
width:512px;
}
Here's the link to my dev pages.
http://www.lmcodebox.com/b-test/index5.html
http://www.lmcodebox.com/b-test/portfolio.html
have you thought about setting the image as the background of the div? This way you keep all the effects you already use and there are ways to manipulate the background position without affecting the outside div. Other possible solution to have perfect round divs, is to use the ::after pseudo-class, like in this gallery tutorial:
http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/decorative-css-gallery-part-2
Sorry if I misunderstood you, hope it helps.
PS.: Beautiful test page by the way.
Well first, you'd only need to set the border radius to 50% to make something a circle, and if each corner is the same value, then you can just enter it once like so:
border-radius:50%;
As far as these images being rectangles goes, you could set your images as the background of a span, give it a height and a width that forms as square and use display block. This would keep the photos proportional, but allow you to make them square.
This however, could create a bit of a markup mess if you have a lot of images to display. Another solution, which means more work, but I would personaly do it, is to just crop your images into squares for their thumbnail with photoshop or some other image editing tool.
Above all of that, I don't see a width or height actually declared on the pages you linked. Are you sure you've placed them on the correct class? I see the border radius declared, but I'm only seeing a max-width: 100%; not width: 200px or height:200px
I re-thought the problem with the suggestion of using the images as backgrounds of an element as madaaah did above.
What I ended up doing was wrapping a DIV around my A tag like this:
then, I set the background of the A like this: style="background:url(PHOTO URL HERE) no-repeat;background-position:center;">
lastly, I made a square image (800 x 800) to go inside the A tag so it would keep the round shape and made it completely transparent so the background image is visible, while growing and shrinking in a "responsive" manner.

css sliding doors technique for animated loading bar

I have an image that I am using as a loading animation that is 755px wide.
http://www.salts-studios.com/resources/working_large.gif
The things is I have a requirement in one section of an app I am developing where the image width must be fluid.
IE 8 is the main supported browser (I know, I know) so scaling the image up when required isnt an option.
I cant change the image, but I could create a new additional one so long as it looked identical in style to the original.
Can anybody recommend any technique to achieve a fully fluid width?
I've tried various sliding door techniques but they fall over as the image is animated.
Thanks in advance.
There's a rather simple solution to this. In a parent div, set it to width: 100%, and set the child image also to width: 100%. Here's an example:
.bar {
width: 100%;
}
.bar img {
width: 100%;
height: 19px;
}
And here's a JSBin that has a working example
Drag your browser window to different sizes and watch the image width resize. Let me know if this is what you were thinking should happen.

Max-height (and aspect ratio) issue in Chrome, when I want to make an image gallery with floating height

A few weeks ago I working on this site. This is my next portfolio site. I want to make this structure, when I finish:
Header
Horizontal image gallery with floating height
Footer
I want to create something similar, just like the 22slides.com portfolio sites for photographers. If you change your browser's window size or press full screen button, the img element or the image's div automatically change his height.
I putted in the CSS a "max-height" parameter, to prevent the images never become bigger than their original resolution. It's a serious issue on huge resolution screens. but in Chrome it's not working properly, because the aspect ratios become wrong. If you press full screen, the aspect ratio more bad. In every other latest browser (Firefox, Safari, Opera, IE8-9) working normally. I created a custome CSS only for chrome with this command (but now I uncommented this in HTML to show you the Chrome aspect ratio problem):
#portfolio img { max-height: none; }
So with this line, the images using the biggest possible height in Chrome and the aspect ratios are correct. But it's a problem for me. I not want that a 1024x683px image showed bigger than his actual resolution on a FullHD monitor.
I think the best solution, if there's a javascript, which is dynamically escribe a width and height for every single image and keep the original aspect ratio. 22slides.com using something similar javascript, but I'm not a javascript programmer at all. :(
The images HTML structure:
<div id="portfolio">
<img src="image1.jpg" alt="" />
<img src="image2.jpg" alt="" />
</div>
CSS (max-height is very little number, just to show you the problem in Chrome):
#portfolio { white-space: nowrap; float: left; }
#portfolio img { height: 100%; width: auto !important; min-height: 150px; max-height: 350px; }
I'm using this Jquery Javascript to dynamically change the image's height and bring back the image's overflow on the screen with 130px negative height. Probably not this script causing the problem, becuase if I turn it off, the aspect ratios are more bad in Chrome:
// Dynamical vertical resizing on images and Correct the height (to not overflow the screen)
$(document).ready(function(){
$(window).load(function(){ // On load
$('#portfolio img').css({'height':(($(window).height())-130)+'px'}); // Adjust the number if you change something in CSS
});
$(window).resize(function(){ // On resize
$('#portfolio img').css({'height':(($(window).height())-130)+'px'}); // Adjust the number if you change something in CSS
});
});
I need help! Thank You!
Update:
This javascript written by "Emphram Stavanger" and "nick_w" seems to solve my image fit to browser height problem:
Imagefit vertically
I tried and it's perfectly working with one single image. The image fitting in the available viewport window perfectly, with correct aspect ratio! There is a visual explanation for our problem made by "Emphram Stavanger":
http://www.swfme.com/view/1064342
JsFiddle demo (Basicly it's Emphram Stavanger's code, I just putted in the changes by nick_W, changed Jquery to latest and I putted after the show link:
http://jsfiddle.net/YVqAW/show/
I not tried yet with horizontal scrolling image website, but it's already a big step!
UPDATE 2:
SOLUTION: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20303672/horizontal-image-slideshow-javascript-not-working-properly-with-portrait-oriente
(And I need help again...) :)
A little late but you can use a div with background-image and set background-size: contain instead of an img tag:
div.image{
background-image: url("your/url/here");
background-size:contain;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center;
}
Now you can just set your div size to whatever you want and not only will the image keep its aspect ratio it will also be centralized both vertically and horizontally.
The background-size property is ie>=9 only though.

Kill Horizontal Scroll On Absolute Image with Body as Parent

I haven't asked too many CSS questions on here, so here it goes.
Let's say I have a page:
<body>
<div id="wrap">//page containment, etc.. goes here..</div>
<img class="custom-bg" src="example.jpg" />
</body>
Then I write some CSS for the image in particular:
#wrap {
z-index: 100;
}
img.custom-bg {
position: absolute;
top: 1000px;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -960px //the image is 1290px wide
z-index: 0;
}
If you can't tell by now, yes, I'm trying to create a background image using absolute positioning. Yes, I know, I can just set the image as a background to the body tag and use positioning to place it, but for the sake of this question, let's say that's not an option to me.
The issue at hand is the appearance of horizontal scroll bars. Google is full of examples with people turning off overflow and other things, but I'm curious if anyone has been able to find/create a definite approach to removing horizontal scroll bars when performing something like the above. An absolute image, that lives happily on it's own. Centered. And not "attached" to the window... Thus eliminating the need for the browser to let users know there's an image that's really big, and that they just have to see it by scrolling horizontally a little bit.
Any insight would be awesome. I included as little code as possible so that people who may search for this example and are new to web dev, may have an easy time understanding how to work through their problem regarding absolute positioning and horizontal scrolling.
I may have missed the point here, but why don't you just use position:fixed instead?
http://jsfiddle.net/shanethehat/7MetS/

Fluid images in Chrome: how to avoid repaint?

I'm working on a photography site with a lot of images and they have no fixed height and width as I want this site to be 100% fluid: how do you work around the ugly Chrome repaint of the images? (i.e. Images are first displayed at zero height and then rescaled to their final size moving around the entire layout)
I've tried pretty much everything and my last option is to hide the image repaint with a black div and then set its opacity to 0 when images are finished loading (BTW, I've tried this with a (document).ready call but it seems too soon: how would you do it?)
Specify your image's height and width attribute / its dimensions.
<img src="img.jpg" width="125" height="60" alt="My First Photograph ever">
This helps the browser avoid a second pass to layout your page and it optimizes page load as well! :)
Chrome (or any browser really) cannot avoid this 'repainting', since they don't know on forehand what size your images will be.
Thus, you will need to explicitly specify the sizes of your images, either in the image width and height properties itself, or via CSS.
I know I am more than two years late, but how about the practice suggested here?
<div class="embed-container ratio-16-9">
<img src="imgage.jpg"/>
</div>
.embed-container {
position: relative;
height: 0;
overflow: hidden;
background-color:black;
}
.ratio-16-9{
padding-bottom:56.25%; /* 9/16*100 */
}
.ratio-4-3{
padding-bottom:75%; /* 3/4*100 */
}
.ratio-1-1{
padding-bottom:100%; /* ... */
Also, an important remark from the comments section to pay attention to, and improve upon the original technique:
Nice trick. However, if I was you, I would replace the "img" tag with
a background image on your div (and background-size: cover or
contain). That would avoid you the position trick, the overflow trick,
and a lot of work for the browser.
I hope someone will find this useful.
It’s hard to test, but you could try setting width/height in CSS
img {display: block; width: 100%; height: auto;}
if you want the images to be full-width. This might prevent a full-page repaint, but of course there’ll be some repaint regardless as images load. You can also investigate what’s happening with Chrome’s --show-paint-rects
Hope that helps

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