CSS - Background Image Stretch Horizontally And Repeat Vertically?

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Learn more about Labs CSS - Background image stretch horizontally and repeat vertically? Ask Question Asked 7 years, 11 months ago Modified 5 months ago Viewed 36k times 17

Using background-size: cover I am able to make the background stretch to fit the full width of the page.

Using repeat-y I am able to make the background repeat or tile vertically, to the full height of the page.

Is there any way to combine these two effects? Unfortunately they don't seem to work together (at least in Chrome). It appears that I can either stretch in both directions with background-size: cover, or not stretch in the x direction but repeat in the y direction.

Edit: Using background-size: 100% Npx (where N is the height of the image) I can accomplish the above, but it skews the background image as it's only stretched in one direction. Is there a way to keep it scaling proportionally?

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• you can do that with only background-size:100%; – Chiller Commented Dec 7, 2016 at 19:23
• @Chiller you are correct but you need to specify both x and y. i.e. background-size: 100% auto – zgood Commented Dec 7, 2016 at 19:25
• @ probablly you are right but if you see here it works without adding auto jsfiddle.net/qp4093h2 – Chiller Commented Dec 7, 2016 at 19:37

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Instead of cover, use background-size: 100% auto; to size the background image to full browser width while maintaining aspect ratio for its height.

You can use this in conjunction with background-repeat: repeat-y; to tile it vertically, but note that will also be the default behavior here if you're not overriding background-repeat.

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Jul 1 at 16:31 answered Dec 7, 2016 at 19:22 Jon UleisJon Uleis 18.6k33 gold badges3535 silver badges4545 bronze badges 4

• 1 Since the background-size x is 100% width it shouldn't repeat-x so you actually don't need to specify repeat-y, just let it default.... but it doesn't hurt. – zgood Commented Dec 7, 2016 at 19:26
• 3 for those searching for what I was -- the auto attribute above is specifying a height, so if you put in a fixed height like in the code background-size: 100% 150px; then your image will stretch horizontally while maintaining the 150px dimension. – Daniel Thompson Commented Jan 22, 2018 at 7:26
• 3 In my case it is not working, I change it to background-size: 100% calc(100%), and it worked for me – Rishi0405 Commented Nov 29, 2018 at 10:09
• As @Rishi0405 comments, it doesn't work if the image is higher horizontally than the screen. I needed to stretch it, so calc(100%) worked fine – Faliorn Commented Sep 1, 2022 at 11:27

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