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Learn more about Labs Fit website background image to screen size Ask Question Asked 11 years ago Modified 1 year, 1 month ago Viewed 442k times 35

I'm just starting on a website and I already encounter a small problem where I can't find a specific solution to.

I wanted to make my website background fit any screen size in width, height does not matter.

This is the link to my image:

../IMAGES/background.jpg

EDIT

I have no idea what's wrong, but for some reason the body doesn't even want to get the background image. It just displays a plain white background.

body {background-image:url(../IMAGES/background.jpg);}

• html
• css
• background
• size
• responsive

Share Improve this question Follow edited Aug 11, 2017 at 14:00 Vadim Kotov 8,25488 gold badges5050 silver badges6363 bronze badges asked Nov 12, 2013 at 9:12 TimTim 40111 gold badge55 silver badges77 bronze badges 2

• 3 There are so many question like yours. Please use the search function! And the image path is your local path. – Michael Schmidt Commented Nov 12, 2013 at 9:15
• 1 possible duplicate of Stretch and scale a CSS image in the background - with CSS only – Oliver Matthews Commented Nov 12, 2013 at 9:15

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you can do this with this plugin http://dev.andreaseberhard.de/jquery/superbgimage/

or

background-image:url(../IMAGES/background.jpg); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-size:cover;

with no need the prefixes of browsers. it's all ready suporterd in both of browsers

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Oct 28, 2023 at 0:47 answered Nov 12, 2013 at 9:25 VictorinoVictorino 1,6431212 silver badges2222 bronze badges 1

• This solution doesn't work in case of mobile screens stackoverflow.com/questions/72852187/… – vikramvi Commented Jul 4, 2022 at 5:41

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Try this ,

background: url(../IMAGES/background.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed; -webkit-background-size: cover; -moz-background-size: cover; -o-background-size: cover; background-size: cover;

For more information , follow this Perfect Full Page Background Image !!

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Nov 12, 2013 at 9:18 zeyzey 6,0951414 gold badges6363 silver badges112112 bronze badges 2

• It's a little bit old thread, but It actually worked good for me, but be sure to place this CSS in the html {} and NOT in the body {}. – Marco Commented Oct 18, 2015 at 18:24
• This is perfect for all kinds of devices. Keeping image center performs the magic – Yogi Commented Mar 10, 2017 at 7:51

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You can try with

.appBackground { position: relative; background-image: url(".../img/background.jpg"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-size:100% 100vh; }

works for me :)

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jun 20, 2016 at 9:52 Carlos JaraizCarlos Jaraiz 22122 silver badges33 bronze badges 2

• 2 This one is the only correct solution. The key to success is "100vh". – Farshad Mohajeri Commented Jun 21, 2018 at 7:42
• finally an answer that doesn't just say "use background-size: cover", this works. – Stef Commented Nov 20, 2021 at 19:46

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Try this, I hope it will help:

position: fixed; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; background-size: cover; background-image: url('background.jpg'); Share Improve this answer Follow answered Dec 5, 2018 at 18:54 Sara PopaSara Popa 16322 silver badges66 bronze badges Add a comment | 3 body{ background-image: url(".../img/background.jpg"); background-size: 100vw 100vh; background-repeat: no-repeat; } Share Improve this answer Follow answered Mar 24, 2021 at 8:58 coderXcoderX 21355 silver badges1818 bronze badges 1

• 1 Please don't post only code as an answer, but also provide an explanation of what your code does and how it solves the problem of the question. Answers with an explanation are usually more helpful and of better quality, and are more likely to attract upvotes. – Ran Marciano Commented Mar 24, 2021 at 19:36

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Try this:

background: url(../IMAGES/background.jpg) no-repeat; background-size: auto auto; Share Improve this answer Follow edited Apr 23, 2016 at 8:00 Jai Kumar Rajput 4,18733 gold badges4040 silver badges6666 bronze badges answered Nov 12, 2013 at 9:52 RohitRohit 67766 silver badges2525 bronze badges Add a comment | 2

.. I found the above solutions didn't work for me (on current versions of firefox and safari at least).

In my case I'm actually trying to do it with an img tag, not background-image, though it should also work for background-image if you use z-height:

<img src='$url' style='position:absolute; top,left:0px; width,max-height:100%; border:0;' >

This scales the image to be 'fullscreen' (probably breaking the aspect ratio) which was what I wanted to do but had a hard-time finding.

It may also work for background-image though I gave up on trying that kind of solution after cover/contain didn't work for me.

I found contain behaviour didn't seem to match the documentation I could find anywhere - I understood the documentation to say contain should make the largest dimension get contained within the screen (maintained aspect). I found contain always made my image tiny (original image was large).

Contain was with some hacks closer to what I wanted than cover, which seems to be that the aspect is maintained but image is scaled to make the smallest-dimension match the screen - i.e. always make the image as big as it can until one of the dimensions would go offscreen...

I tried a bunch of different things, starting over included, but found height was essentially always ignored and would overflow. (I've been trying to scale a non-widescreen image to be fullscreen on both, broken-aspect is ok for me). Basically, the above is what worked for me, hope it helps someone.

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Nov 23, 2016 at 4:13 answered Oct 29, 2014 at 0:08 pacifistpacifist 72244 silver badges1313 bronze badges 0 Add a comment | 2

This worked for me:

body { background-image:url(../IMAGES/background.jpg); background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-size: cover; } Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jul 5, 2020 at 4:00 code001code001 2111 bronze badge 1

• 2 Welcome to Stack Overflow. When answering a six year old question with an accepted answer and twelve existing answers it is very important to point out what new aspect of the question your answer addresses. Code only answers can generally be improved by explaining how and why they work. – Jason Aller Commented Jul 5, 2020 at 4:41

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Try this,

.appBg { background-image: url(".../img/background.jpg"); background-repeat:no-repeat; -webkit-background-size: 100% auto; -moz-background-size: 100% auto; -o-background-size: 100% auto; background-size: 100% auto ; }

This one works for me

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jun 30, 2017 at 8:52 Udara HerathUdara Herath 88533 gold badges1919 silver badges4141 bronze badges Add a comment | 0

Background image fix to screens with browser compatibility css

.full-screen { height: 100%; width: 100%; background-image: url(../images/banner.jpg); background-size: cover; background-position: center; //for browser compatibility -moz-background-size: cover; -webkit-background-size: cover; -o-background-size: cover; } Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jul 27, 2018 at 12:58 Muhammad BilalMuhammad Bilal 2,9782828 silver badges5353 bronze badges Add a comment | 0

Although there are answers to this your questions but because I was once a victim of this problem and after few search online i was unable to solve it but my fellow hub mate helped me and i feel i should share. Examples explained below.

Folders: web-projects/project1/imgs-journey.png

background-image:url(../imgs/journey.png); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-size:cover;

My major points is the dots there if you noticed my journey.png is located inside an imgs folder of another folder so you're to add the dot according to the numbers folders where your image is stored. In my case my journey.png image is saved in two folders that's why two dot is used, so i think this may be the problem of background images not showing sometimes in our codes. Thanks.

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Apr 1, 2019 at 20:56 Sebastian Brosch 43.4k1515 gold badges7676 silver badges8989 bronze badges answered Sep 5, 2018 at 14:51 StanzuckStanzuck 3755 bronze badges Add a comment | 0 width: 100%; background-image: url("images/bluedraw.jpg"); background-size: cover; Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jun 27, 2020 at 5:43 Kalon AcharjeeKalon Acharjee 1 0 Add a comment | 0

Similar to some of the answers above but I wouldn't set in the body, it is less flexible that way. If I were you, I would create a container and set the background properties specific to it. This allows the image to scale with the page AND enables it to fully take up the background even in situations where the page size differs drastically from the image proportions, see images at the very bottom as an example.

To create such a container, you can do something similar to the following:

In your html page:

<div class='background-div'></div>

In your style sheet:

.background-div { top: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; position: fixed; background-image: url(../images/background.jpg); background-size: cover; background-position: center; }

The CSS block does the following:

1. Zero out any positioning, ie sets image to start at the top most left corner.
2. We set position to fixed in order remove the element from the normal document flow.
3. Set image location. You should change it your respective folder.
4. We set background to cover which will make the image fit the screen.
5. Lastly, we center the image.

background style applied to <div> container

background style applied to <body> container

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Apr 29, 2023 at 16:22 N.AtanasovN.Atanasov 38122 silver badges66 bronze badges Add a comment | -1

You can do it like what I did with my website:

background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; Share Improve this answer Follow edited May 17, 2016 at 20:37 Michał Perłakowski 92.1k3030 gold badges163163 silver badges185185 bronze badges answered May 17, 2016 at 18:14 Ya agYa ag 1 Add a comment | -1 background: url("../image/b21.jpg") no-repeat center center fixed; background-size: 100% 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; width: 100%; Share Improve this answer Follow edited Jul 28, 2016 at 12:03 demonplus 5,7911212 gold badges5353 silver badges6969 bronze badges answered Jul 28, 2016 at 10:19 Ravi dangarRavi dangar 111 bronze badge Add a comment |

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