Stretching background

[Marmotje]

Hi,

For my new cmsms site I have a high res background. But it's not widescreen and I can't find the working code to automatically stretch the background at all resolutions

Any ideas ?

Running the latest version of cmsms

[Greg]

Take a look at this page http://www.cssplay.co.uk/layouts/background.html

Then view the source, you will see what your CSS needs to be for the effect you are trying to achieve.

[Marmotje]

This is my CSS sheet but i just can't get it work tried everything....

can someone please insert the right code at the right place

Thanks!!!!!!

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/*****************
browsers interpret margin and padding a little differently, 
we'll remove all default padding and margins and
set them later on
******************/
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}



/*
Set initial font styles
*/
body {
   text-align: left;
   font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
   font-size: 75.01%;
   line-height: 1em;
}

/*
set font size for all divs,
this overrides some body rules
*/
div {
   font-size: 1em;
}

/*
if img is inside "a" it would have 
borders, we don't want that
*/
img {
   border: 0;
}

/*
default link styles
*/
/* set all links to have underline and bluish color 18507C */
a,
a:link 
a:active {
   text-decoration: underline;
/* css validation will give a warning if color is set without background color. this will explicitly tell this element to inherit bg colour from parent element */
   background-color: inherit; 
   color: #000000; 
}

a:visited {
   text-decoration: underline;
   background-color: inherit;
  color: #000000;                /* a different color can be used for visited links */
}


/* remove underline on hover and change color */
a:hover {
   text-decoration: none;
   background-color: #B3F028;
   color: #000;
}

/*****************
basic layout echt de achtergrond om het venster heen
*****************/

body {

 <div>
<img id="background" src="images/afbeeldinggroot.jpg" alt="" title="" /> 
</div>

}

/* center wrapper, min max width DE ACHTERGROND IN MIDDELSTE VENSTER FFF  E9F2AF/ECF2BF*/
div#pagewrapper {
   border: 1px solid black;
   margin: 0 auto;       /* this centers wrapper */
   max-width: 80em;   /* IE wont understand these, so we will use javascript magick */
   min-width: 60em;
   background-color: #ECF2BF;;
   color: black;
}

div.right49 {
  float: right;
  width: 49%;
  text-align: right;
}


/*** header ***
we will hide text and replace it with a image
we need to assign a height for it so that the image wont cut off
*/
div#header {
   height: 108px;    /* adjust according your image size */
   background: #b3f028;           
}

div#header h1 a {
/* you can set your own image here */
   background: #dd1b2b url(images/cms/logo5.gif) no-repeat 0 4px; 
   display: block;
   height: 98px;             /* adjust according your image size */
   text-indent: -999em;  /* this hides the text */
   text-decoration:none; /* old firefox would have shown underline for the link, this explicitly hides it */
}




div.breadcrumbs {
   padding: 1.2em 0 1.2em 0; /* CSS short hand rule first value is top then right, bottom and left */
   font-size: 90%;        /* its good to set fontsizes to be relative, this way viewer can change his/her fontsize */
   margin: 0 1em;        /* css shorthand rule will be opened to be "0 1em 0 1em" */
   border-bottom: 1px dotted #000;
}

div#content {
   margin: 1.5em auto 2em 0;   /* some air above and under menu and content */
}


div#main {
   margin-left: 22%; 
   width: 50%;
   margin-right: 1%; /* and some air on the right */

}

div#sidebar {
   float: left;        /* set sidebar on the left side. Change to right to float it right instead. */
   width: 20%;     /* sidebar width, if you change this please also change #main margins */
   display: inline;  /* FIX IE double margin bug */
   margin-left: 0;

}

div#sidebar2 {
   float: right;        /* set sidebar on the right side. */
   width: 24%;     /* sidebar width, if you change this please also change #main margins */
   display: inline;  /* FIX IE double margin bug */
   margin-left:1%;
   margin-right: 1%;
}


div#footer {
   clear: both;       /* keep footer below content and menu */
   color: #fff;
   background-color: #b3f028; /* same bg color as in header */
}

div#footer p {
   font-size: 0.8em;
   padding: 1.5em;       /* some air for footer */
   text-align: center;  /* centered text */
   margin: 0;
}

div#footer p a {
   color: #fff; /* needed becouse footer link would be same color as background otherwise */
}

/* as we hid all hr for accessibility we create new hr with extra div element */
div.hr {
   height: 1px;
   padding: 1em;
   border-bottom: 1px dotted black;
   margin: 1em;
}

/* relational links under content */
div.left49 {
  width: 49%; /* 50% for both left and right might lead to rounding error on some browser */
}

div.right49 {
  float: right;
  width: 49%;
  text-align: right;
}




/********************
CONTENT STYLING
*********************/
div#content {

}

/* HEADINGS */
div#content h1 {
   font-size: 2em; /* font size for h1 */
   line-height: 1em;
   margin: 0;
}
div#content h2 {
	color: #000; 
	font-size: 1.5em; 
	text-align: left; 
/* some air around the text 294B5F*/
	padding-left: 0.5em;
	padding-bottom: 1px;
/* set borders around header */
	border-bottom: 1px solid #b3f028; 
	border-left: 1.1em solid #b3f028; 
        line-height: 1.5em;
/* and some air under the border */
        margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
}
div#content h3 {
   color: #000; 
   font-size: 1.3em;
   line-height: 1.3em;
   margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
}
div#content h4 {
   color: #000; 
   font-size: 1.2em;
   line-height: 1.3em;
   margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
div#content h5 {
   color: #000; 
   font-size: 1.1em;
   line-height: 1.3em;
   margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
h6 {
   color: #000; 
   font-size: 1em;
   line-height: 1.3em;
   margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
/* END HEADINGS */

/* TEXT */
p {
   font-size: 1em;
   margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; /* some air around p elements */
   line-height: 1.4em;
   padding: 0;
}

blockquote {
   border-left: 10px solid #ddd;
   margin-left: 10px;
}
strong, b {
/* explicit setting for these */
   font-weight: bold;
}
em, i {
/* explicit setting for these */
   font-style:italic;
}

/* Wrapping text in <code> tags. Makes CSS not validate */
code, pre {
 white-space: pre-wrap;       /* css-3 */
 white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;  /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
 white-space: -pre-wrap;      /* Opera 4-6 */
 white-space: -o-pre-wrap;    /* Opera 7 */
 word-wrap: break-word;       /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
 font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
 font-size: 1em;
}

pre {
   border: 1px solid #000;  /* black border for pre blocks */
   background-color: #ddd;
   margin: 0 1em 1em 1em;
   padding: 0.5em;
   line-height: 1.5em;
   font-size: 90%;


}

/* Separating the divs on the template explanation page, with some bottom-border */
div.templatecode {
  margin: 0 0 2.5em;
}

/* END TEXT */

/* LISTS */
/* lists in content need some margins to look nice */
div#main ul,
div#main ol,
div#main dl {
   font-size: 1.0em;
   line-height: 1.4em;
   margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;
}

div#main ul li,
div#main ol li {
   margin: 0 0 0.25em 3em;
}

/* definition lists topics on bold */
div#main dl dt {
   font-weight: bold;
   margin: 0 0 0 1em;
}
div#main dl dd {
   margin: 0 0 1em 1em;
}

div#main dl {
  margin-bottom: 2em;
  padding-bottom: 1em;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #c0c0c0;
}

/* END LISTS */

[Greg]

Do you have a link to your web site so we could take a look?

You have HTML code in your CSS file (not the problem though)

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/*****************
basic layout echt de achtergrond om het venster heen
*****************/

body {

 <div>
<img id="background" src="images/afbeeldinggroot.jpg" alt="" title="" /> 
</div>

}

[Marmotje]

http://62.51.30.17/cmsmadesimple/

[tsw]

body {
background: url(images/afbeeldinggroot.jpg);
}


css doesnt have any way to stretch/shrink images (well css3 will probably have but I dont think browsers support it yet)

[Marmotje]

so... it's not possible ?

Can you use javascript in a CSS file ? and how ?

[tsw]

CSS file is just css, you might find some JS that does it by changing css rules on fly when page size is changed, but as I try to avoid such things because they wont work everywhere I really dont know where you could find one.

maybe mark has idea, he has found some nice JS tricks like moving boxes and so on