Hi I have big background images 1200 by 1200, what i would like to do is expand the images when the user resizes the browser but constrain it so they never scale any smaller than the original size.
There all lots of scalable bg images out there but none I can find that do this, any help would be appreciated.
background-size: cover;
there you go
The following CSS + Javascript + JQuery combination has worked for me.
Thanks to ANeves for the above answer which was helpful.
CSS:
body
{
background: url(background.jpg) center center fixed;
background-size: 100% auto;
}
Javascript (JQuery):
jQuery (function ($)
{ // ready
$(window).resize (function (event)
{
var minwidth = 1200;
var minheight = 1024;
var bodye = $('body');
var bodywidth = bodye.width ();
if (bodywidth < minwidth)
{ // maintain minimum size
bodye
.css ('backgroundSize', minwidth + 'px' + ' ' + minheight + 'px')
;
}
else
{ // expand
bodye
.css ('backgroundSize', '100% auto')
;
}
});
});
another possibility would be to use media queries. set the image size to be say..1280x450 and then use a media query of background-size:100% auto; for all window sizes over 1280px wide.
there is some code which also handles image resizing with IE, however ive admittedly had limited success with it...
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='../images/beach_2.png',sizingMethod='scale');
-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='../images/beach_2.png',sizingMethod='scale')" ;
if anybody has any add ons or fixes for the above then feel free to contribute.
hope this helps someone out there...
For background images, I usually set a minimum width for the html tag which would be the original width of the image or less, this stops the image from shrinking too far.
Put image in div and give size to it.
Apply following property to img tag
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: 100% 100%;
You seem to be looking for CSS3's background-size property. You can constraint the minimum size to the container, if you know that the images are 1200x1200.
I don't believe it'll work on IE though, so it might not be an option for you.
In that case, I suggest you take a peek at http://www.markschenk.com/cssexp/background/scaledbgimage.html
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I am trying to fix our parallax effect on our demo site however for the life of me I cannot get it working correctly. The parallax effect works perfectly however the positioning of the image repeats below. The issue occurs when the browser window is not full width.
background: URL(http://www.oddpandadesign.co.uk/albaband/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/parallax_head.png) 50% 0 fixed;
background-size: cover;
jQuery
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
// cache the window object
$window = jQuery(window);
jQuery('section[data-type="background"]').each(function(){
// declare the variable to affect the defined data-type
var $scroll = jQuery(this);
jQuery(window).scroll(function() {
// HTML5 proves useful for helping with creating JS functions!
// also, negative value because we're scrolling upwards
var yPos = -($window.scrollTop() / $scroll.data('speed'));
// background position
var coords = '50% '+ yPos + 'px';
// move the background
$scroll.css({ backgroundPosition: coords });
}); // end window scroll
}); // end section function
}); // close out script
/* Create HTML5 element for IE */
document.createElement("section");
I am not sure if its the image (though we have tried several) or the code is incorrect.This is not the first experience with parallax and it generally is simple so im a bit confused
Thanks for any help
I had to change
background: URL(http://www.oddpandadesign.co.uk/albaband/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/parallax_head.png) 50% 0 fixed;
to
background: URL(http://www.oddpandadesign.co.uk/albaband/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/parallax_head.png) fixed;
background-position: center top!important;
Is there an elegant way to set breakpoints, of sorts, on height of containers.
Example:
Say you have a div and a min-height is set at say 100px. As soon as the content gets too much it doesn't just grow, but grows by another 100px and when the content eventually gets to the bottom of the 200px extend the height by another 100px.
Has anyone do anything like this before?
I don't think this is possible only using CSS, but you can use javascript:
html:
<div id='div'>hello</div>
javascript:
var div = document.getElementById('div');
var height = 0;
div.style.height = height + "px";
while(div.scrollHeight > div.clientHeight){
height += 50;
div.style.height = height+"px";
}
http://jsfiddle.net/fa7d0/JkT7R/
I found your question very interesting so i took the grow bit literally and created a fiddle where content changes is handled and the containing div is increased either in width or height by a defined threshold.
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Tvswj/1/
The main idea is that you'll only have to listen for DOM changes and then run a jQuery function as such:
// Trigger the resize function on content change
$(myDiv).bind('DOMNodeInserted DOMSubtreeModified DOMNodeRemoved', function () {
$(this).breakpointResize(threshold);
});
If you find it useful, please go ahead and use it and modify as you want.
Credits for DOM events: How to alert ,when div content changes using jquery
You can use container style height: auto ! Important; and min-height: 100px; width: 100%;
How can I prevent a div which contains a long list of items from expanding the page height. I want the div to take up the entire screen but no more so that it doesn't push the footer down.
Set an specific height for the div container, and also set overflow-y with auto in order to show the scroll bar only when the content of the div is larger than the height set in the container. Like this:
.container {
height: 500px;
overflow-y:auto;
}
Without js, it is not possible because your page can be viewed in different resolution. Different resolutions means different height. Matter of fact, you may want that behaviour when user resizes the browser window as well, am I right? So first, find out the height of the browser, subtract the height of the footer from it, and set this height to your container, which I believe you want to make scroll able on yaxis. That will solve the problem. All these tasks are pretty simple and you can do it by little googling.
Use JavaScript/jQuery for this:
jQuery Solution:
<div id="content-div">some content here</div>
$(document).ready(function() {
var height = $(document).height();
height = height - (your footer height);
$("#content-div").css({ 'max-height' : height.toString() });
});
Standard JavaScript solution:
<div id="content-div">some content here</div>
function myfunction () {
document.getElementById('content-div').style.height = getDocHeight() + 'px';
}
window.onload = myfunction();
document.getElementById('content-div').style.height = getDocHeight() + 'px';
function getDocHeight() {
var D = document;
return Math.max(
Math.max(D.body.scrollHeight, D.documentElement.scrollHeight),
Math.max(D.body.offsetHeight, D.documentElement.offsetHeight),
Math.max(D.body.clientHeight, D.documentElement.clientHeight)
);
}
Also, change CSS to:
#content-div { background-color:#1d1d1d; color:#eee; overflow-y: scroll; }
ok there are several similar questions but not quite anything that I want.
I have few ajax requests on page and I want to show the image in the center of the screen, and its all working OK.
Just to make it look more prominent, I wanted to place that image on a div with translucent background, so its more obvious for the end users. Now comes the tricky part.
I made the div with css like this:
.divLoadingBackground
{
filter: Alpha(Opacity=40); -moz-opacity:0.4; opacity: 0.4;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-color: #333;
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
}
This fills the page up alright, or, I should say, this fills the viewport. If I scroll the page down, the page is again normal. I want this div to span the ENTIRE LENGTH of the page, no matter how long the page is.
Here is an example mockup of the problem I made to quickly demonstrate:
As you can see, I took the example of SO for the mockup ;) image 1 shows that its okay when it appears. image 2 shows that it goes up with the page on scroll.
I'm a c# developer and css is as alien to me as ancient latin.
How to make this divLoadingBackground div to fill out the entire length of the page?
Many thanks for any help.
If you need any additional info, please comment!
One thing I dont see in your css is z-index. Fixed, although, fixes this problem, sometimes, based on how other divs are positioned, your divLoadingBackground div could end up in one of the divs.
try adding
z-index: 9999;
or something similar and see if it works.
Would have put this in a comment, but it seems I have too low rep to comment.
Where is the .divLoadingBackground div located in the DOM tree? Since it has fixed position, it shouldn't scroll with the page. This makes me belive that the element is too deeply nested. Try putting it right in the body level of the page and see if that helps.
Also, are you sure that some other css directive isn't changing the position attribute to absolute or something?
Also, make sure to use the right DOCTYPE. That has some impact on fixed position elements.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
Oh, and ofcourse, fixed position isn't supported in IE6 and below.
I believe you will need JavaScript/jQuery to dynamically set the height of the div in question to the height of the page once rendered.
And if you're entering the world of web, it's time to learn that new language "CSS" as well as perpahs-not-quite-as-daunting JavaScript.
When I needed such a functionality some years ago, I examined how Google Calendar did it.
Basically, they use a timer-driven JavaScript file that checks for the height of the window and adjust the height of a contained DIV tag accordingly (or of an IFRAME tag, just any container tag that you like).
Here is a code snippet from a page I worked on:
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].style.height = "100%";
document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].style.height = "100%";
document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].style.minHeight = "100%";
document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].style.minHeight = "100%";
function height()
{
try
{
height_iframe();
}
catch(err)
{
}
}
window.onload=height;
// --
var ie6WorkaroundIFrameResize = 1;
function height_iframe()
{
var any = false;
var offset = 300;
var c = document.getElementById("iframecontent");
if ( c!=null )
{
c.style.height = (GetClientHeight()-offset)+"px";
any = true;
var d = document.getElementById("iframeie6");
if ( d!=null )
{
d.style.height = (GetClientHeight()-(offset+ie6WorkaroundIFrameResize))+"px";
any = true;
ie6WorkaroundIFrameResize = 0;
}
}
if ( any )
{
setTimeout( 'height_iframe()', 300 );
}
}
function GetClientHeight()
{
return document.documentElement.clientHeight;
}
</script>
Basically, the script regularly checks for the height of the window via the GetClientHeight() function and adjusts the element in concern ("iframecontent") accordingly.
I subtract some offsets of fixed-height headers and footers.
AFAIK you would need to set the size of this divthrough javascript. I would recommend using jQuery, in this way :
//$(document).height() gives the size of the document
//(as opposed to $(window).height() that would give the size of the viewport
$("div#overlay").css('height',$(document).height());
How can I load images to cover the whole background like some websites, using CSS. Not the usual background-image property but I want to load the images quickly.
Examples:
http://www.marinayachting.it/
http://alexandraowen.co.nz/
background-image is the only way to place images in CSS. If you want it to be vary large put it on the body element or a container div that fills the entire viewport.
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 100%;
background-image: url('my_big_image.jpg') norepeat;
}
If you use a container div you can set position:fixed; top:0; left:0 and the image will remain stationary when the page scrolls.
There's no magic to it. As far as getting it to load quickly I don't think there's much you can do if it doesn't repeat. If it does repeat then make sure your image is the size of one module. This can be as little as one pixel tall or wide depending on the content.
There is no magic to making a background image load quickly, you just:
Have a fast server.
Compress the image as much as possible.
Make your page HTML small so that the rest can start loading as soon as possible.
Don't have many other images that also has to load.
Don't have a lot of scripts and other external files that has to load.
I found this tutorial helpful. ->
http://css-tricks.com/perfect-full-page-background-image/
Bing is loading a normal background image with a fixed size. It´s not particularly fast (for me...), but perhaps it seems fast because the image is cached after the first time you load it.
You can set the style inline so that the image can start downloading without waiting for any css file to be ready.
If you set an image let's say a picture as a background you need to make it large enough to accommodate large screen sizes. You don't want the experience on your site to be, that your picture repeats multiple times on the screen. Probably at the least width should be 1260px. If background is just a simple gradient, you can cut a small part of it in photoshop and apply it on the body like this:
body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
background:#fff url(your/image/location.jpg) repeat-x scroll 0 0;
}
This method could be applied to divs too, Good luck.
In your second example site, alexandraowen.co.nz, if you took a second to look at the JS they use, you would have seen the following:
// backgrounds --------------------------------------------------------------//
var Backgrounds = {};
Backgrounds.init = function()
{
$('body').each
(
function()
{
var imgsrc = $(this).css('background-image');
if(imgsrc != 'none')
{
imgsrc = imgsrc.slice( imgsrc.indexOf('(') + 1 , -1);
$(this).css('background-image', 'none');
$(this).prepend('');
if($.browser.msie)
{
// ie 7 is the slow kid and we have to strip out quote marks ffs!
$(this).find('div.bg img').attr('src', imgsrc.split('"').join(''));
}
else
{
$(this).find('div.bg img').attr('src', imgsrc);
}
}
}
);
Backgrounds.resizeHandler();
$(window).resize(Backgrounds.resizeHandler);
$('div.bg img').load(Backgrounds.resizeHandler);
}
Backgrounds.resizeHandler = function()
{
var w = $(window).width();
var h = $(window).height();
$('div.bg img').each
(
function()
{
var wr = w / $(this).width();
var hr = h / $(this).height();
var r = Math.max(wr, hr);
var imgw = Math.round($(this).width() * r);
var imgh = Math.round($(this).height() * r);
$(this).width( imgw );
$(this).height( imgh );
var l = Math.round((w/2) - (imgw/2));
$(this).css('margin-left', l+'px');
}
);
}
As well as the HTML on the page:
<body style="background-image: none; ">
If you dig into their scripts a bit more, you can see what they did. But I guarantee you it's nothing faster than just setting the background-image property.
<img id="foo" src="bar" alt=""> with #foo { width: 100%; height: 100%; }(use position: absolute; / position: relative; & z-index for layering as desired)
Here's an old example.