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Using CSS, you can display beautiful background images that span the entirety of the user’s window — regardless of their resolution. Here’s how to do it.

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Upload your background image onto your web server. I recommend a background photo of at least 1200px in width.

html {
    background: url('images/bg.jpg') no-repeat center center fixed;
    -webkit-background-size: cover;
    -moz-background-size: cover;
    -o-background-size: cover;
    background-size: cover;
}

To add support for older versions of Internet Explorer, add the following lines:

filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='.myBackground.jpg', sizingMethod='scale');
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='myBackground.jpg', sizingMethod='scale')";

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Total time: 5 minutes

Updated: August 9th, 2015

Using CSS, you can display beautiful background images that span the entirety of the user’s window — regardless of their resolution. Here’s how to do it.

Posted in these interests:

PRIMARY

18 guides

5 guides

4 guides

Upload your background image onto your web server. I recommend a background photo of at least 1200px in width.

html {
    background: url('images/bg.jpg') no-repeat center center fixed;
    -webkit-background-size: cover;
    -moz-background-size: cover;
    -o-background-size: cover;
    background-size: cover;
}

To add support for older versions of Internet Explorer, add the following lines:

filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='.myBackground.jpg', sizingMethod='scale');
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='myBackground.jpg', sizingMethod='scale')";

webdesign www css

Zach (233)

Total time: 5 minutes

Updated: August 9th, 2015

Using CSS, you can display beautiful background images that span the entirety of the user’s window — regardless of their resolution. Here’s how to do it.

Posted in these interests:

PRIMARY

18 guides

5 guides

4 guides

Upload your background image onto your web server. I recommend a background photo of at least 1200px in width.

html {
    background: url('images/bg.jpg') no-repeat center center fixed;
    -webkit-background-size: cover;
    -moz-background-size: cover;
    -o-background-size: cover;
    background-size: cover;
}

To add support for older versions of Internet Explorer, add the following lines:

filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='.myBackground.jpg', sizingMethod='scale');
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='myBackground.jpg', sizingMethod='scale')";

webdesign www css

Zach (233)

Total time: 5 minutes

Updated: August 9th, 2015

Using CSS, you can display beautiful background images that span the entirety of the user’s window — regardless of their resolution. Here’s how to do it.

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18 guides

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4 guides

webdesign www css

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Total time: 5 minutes

Updated: August 9th, 2015

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Upload your background image onto your web server. I recommend a background photo of at least 1200px in width.

html {
    background: url('images/bg.jpg') no-repeat center center fixed;
    -webkit-background-size: cover;
    -moz-background-size: cover;
    -o-background-size: cover;
    background-size: cover;
}

To add support for older versions of Internet Explorer, add the following lines:

filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='.myBackground.jpg', sizingMethod='scale');
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='myBackground.jpg', sizingMethod='scale')";

Upload your background image onto your web server. I recommend a background photo of at least 1200px in width.

html {
    background: url('images/bg.jpg') no-repeat center center fixed;
    -webkit-background-size: cover;
    -moz-background-size: cover;
    -o-background-size: cover;
    background-size: cover;
}

html {
    background: url('images/bg.jpg') no-repeat center center fixed;
    -webkit-background-size: cover;
    -moz-background-size: cover;
    -o-background-size: cover;
    background-size: cover;
}

To add support for older versions of Internet Explorer, add the following lines:

filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='.myBackground.jpg', sizingMethod='scale');
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='myBackground.jpg', sizingMethod='scale')";

To add support for older versions of Internet Explorer, add the following lines:

filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='.myBackground.jpg', sizingMethod='scale');
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='myBackground.jpg', sizingMethod='scale')";

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SVG Optimization: How (and Why) to Optimize SVGs

SVGs are great; making them smaller makes them even greater. This guide will show you how to optimize SVGs.

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Use Chrome Developer Tools to Check Whether Resources Are Loading over SSL

In the wake of Google’s announcement that it will start giving a ranking boost to full-SSL sites, many companies are converting their sites to be full-https.

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Make your lightbox display over an embedded YouTube video in IE8

In Internet Explorer 8, embedded YouTube videos are treated as the absolute top element, regardless of z-index.

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SVGs are great; making them smaller makes them even greater. This guide will show you how to optimize SVGs.

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In the wake of Google’s announcement that it will start giving a ranking boost to full-SSL sites, many companies are converting their sites to be full-https.

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In Internet Explorer 8, embedded YouTube videos are treated as the absolute top element, regardless of z-index.

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Most people don’t know that you can look up past “snapshots” of almost any website. Archive.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that was formed to build an expansive Internet library.

Internet Explorer 8 may display a border regardless of your CSS attempts. This guide details how to remove it once and for all.

Text shadows are a beautiful and subtle effect for your web site. CSS3 text shadows are currently support on all versions of Chrome, Safari, Firefox 3.5+, and IE 10+.

Learn how to center text in CSS.

If you’re the administrator of a Facebook Page for your business (or whatever), you can still comment as yourself.

When building a website, it’s a good idea to open external links (e.g. http://google.com) in a new window so that users aren’t directed away from your site.

If you’d like your visitors to be able to open a phone application straight from your website you can follow this quick guide.

If you have a log file that gets written to frequently, you will want to add it to logrotate so it doesn’t consume all of your disk space.

Really love that font you found in a book or website? Learn how to tell what it is.

Naming things is hard. “There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” — Phil Karlton Truer words were never spoken.

Most people don’t know that you can look up past “snapshots” of almost any website. Archive.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that was formed to build an expansive Internet library.

Internet Explorer 8 may display a border regardless of your CSS attempts. This guide details how to remove it once and for all.

Text shadows are a beautiful and subtle effect for your web site. CSS3 text shadows are currently support on all versions of Chrome, Safari, Firefox 3.5+, and IE 10+.

Learn how to center text in CSS.

If you’re the administrator of a Facebook Page for your business (or whatever), you can still comment as yourself.

When building a website, it’s a good idea to open external links (e.g. http://google.com) in a new window so that users aren’t directed away from your site.

If you’d like your visitors to be able to open a phone application straight from your website you can follow this quick guide.

If you have a log file that gets written to frequently, you will want to add it to logrotate so it doesn’t consume all of your disk space.

Really love that font you found in a book or website? Learn how to tell what it is.

Naming things is hard. “There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” — Phil Karlton Truer words were never spoken.

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How to create a full-page (cover) background image using CSS

Upload your background image

Paste the following in your CSS file

Add old version IE support (optional)

How to create a full-page (cover) background image using CSS

Upload your background image

Paste the following in your CSS file

Add old version IE support (optional)

How to create a full-page (cover) background image using CSS

Upload your background image

Paste the following in your CSS file

Add old version IE support (optional)

How to create a full-page (cover) background image using CSS

How to create a full-page (cover) background image using CSS

Upload your background image

Paste the following in your CSS file

Add old version IE support (optional)

Upload your background image

Upload your background image

Upload your background image

Paste the following in your CSS file

Paste the following in your CSS file

Paste the following in your CSS file

Add old version IE support (optional)

Add old version IE support (optional)

Add old version IE support (optional)

How to create a full-page (cover) background image using CSS

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