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Learn more about Labs Fit background image to div Ask Question Asked 12 years, 7 months ago Modified 11 months ago Viewed 876k times 499

I have a background image in the following div, but the image gets cut off:

<div style='text-align:center;background-image: url(/media/img_1_bg.jpg);background-repeat:no-repeat;width:450px;height:900px;' id="mainpage" align="center">

Is there a way to show the background image without cutting it off?

• html
• css
• background-image

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• Is the image bigger than the div? – grc Commented Nov 20, 2011 at 8:05
• 1 yes the image is bigger than the div – Rajeev Commented Nov 20, 2011 at 8:05
• 7 background-image:url(/media/img_1_bg.jpg); background-size: contain; background-repeat:no-repeat; – Waruna Manjula Commented May 18, 2018 at 16:39

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You can achieve this with the background-size property, which is now supported by most browsers.

To scale the background image to fit inside the div:

background-size: contain;

To scale the background image to cover the whole div:

background-size: cover;

JSFiddle example or runnable snippet:

#imagecontainer { background: url("http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EqZzf-l7OCg/TNmdtcyGBZI/AAAAAAAAAD8/KD5Y23c24go/s1600/homer-simpson-1280x1024.jpg") no-repeat; width: 100px; height: 200px; border: 1px solid; background-size: contain; } <div id="imagecontainer"></div>

There also exists a filter for IE 5.5+ support, as well as vendor prefixes for some older browsers.

Share Follow edited Sep 19, 2022 at 14:25 Basj 45k107107 gold badges429429 silver badges756756 bronze badges answered Nov 20, 2011 at 8:14 grcgrc 23.3k55 gold badges4444 silver badges6363 bronze badges 0 Add a comment | 202

If what you need is the image to have the same dimensions of the div, I think this is the most elegant solution:

background-size: 100% 100%;

If not, the answer by @grc is the most appropriated one.

Source: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_background-size.asp

Share Follow edited Jun 21, 2018 at 8:42 answered Aug 14, 2015 at 14:25 SertageSertage 3,18311 gold badge2020 silver badges2727 bronze badges 3

• 6 but this would stretch the image... is there a way to fit the background image without stretching it? – Junaid Commented Feb 9, 2018 at 12:52
• 1 Aspect ratio lost however. – Learner Commented Jan 7, 2019 at 10:38
• 1 @Learner If you change the dimensions of a image without cropping the image the aspect ratio will be lost 99% of the time. It's common sense. – Vaibhav Vishal Commented Apr 11, 2019 at 11:11

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You can use this attributes:

background-size: contain; background-repeat: no-repeat;

and you code is then like this:

<div style="text-align:center;background-image: url(/media/img_1_bg.jpg); background-size: contain; background-repeat: no-repeat;" id="mainpage"> Share Follow answered Nov 13, 2018 at 5:05 hojjat.mihojjat.mi 1,5341616 silver badges2323 bronze badges Add a comment | 15 background-position-x: center; background-position-y: center; Share Follow answered Oct 29, 2020 at 16:10 Abhijeet1520Abhijeet1520 16244 silver badges77 bronze badges 1

• Welcome to stackoverflow! Please explain your answer to make it helpful. stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-answer stackoverflow.com/tour – ethry Commented Oct 4, 2022 at 2:00

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you also use this:

background-size:contain; height: 0; width: 100%; padding-top: 66,64%;

I don't know your div-values, but let's assume you've got those.

height: auto; max-width: 600px;

Again, those are just random numbers. It could quite hard to make the background-image (if you would want to) with a fixed width for the div, so better use max-width. And actually it isn't complicated to fill a div with an background-image, just make sure you style the parent element the right way, so the image has a place it can go into.

Chris

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• 1 Link to a highly voted answer that talks about this solution in more detail: stackoverflow.com/questions/600743/… and shows you how to calculate the padding-top. – John Lee Commented May 1, 2019 at 16:57

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try any of the following,

background-size: contain; background-size: cover; background-size: 100%; .container{ background-size: 100%; }

The background-size property specifies the size of the background images.

There are different syntaxes you can use with this property: the keyword syntax ("auto", "cover" and "contain"), the one-value syntax (sets the width of the image (height becomes "auto"), the two-value syntax (first value: width of the image, second value: height).

• percentage - Sets the width and height of the background image in percent of the parent element.
• cover - Resize the background image to cover the entire container, even if it has to stretch the image or cut a little bit off one of the edges
• contain - Resize the background image to make sure the image is fully visible

For more: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_background-size.asp

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• Welcome to stackoverflow! Please explain your answer to make it helpful. stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-answer stackoverflow.com/tour – ethry Commented Oct 4, 2022 at 2:01

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Alternative:

background-size: auto 100%; Share Follow answered May 26, 2022 at 0:59 MarcelMarcel 3,08833 gold badges3131 silver badges5353 bronze badges 1

• Welcome to stackoverflow! Please explain your answer to make it helpful. stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-answer stackoverflow.com/tour – ethry Commented Oct 4, 2022 at 2:00

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you can also try this, set background size as cover and to get it look nicer also set background position center like so :

background-size: cover; background-position: center ; Share Follow answered Oct 4, 2022 at 1:02 Mostafa GhorbaniMostafa Ghorbani 43911 gold badge55 silver badges1818 bronze badges Add a comment |

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