How to make background img fit

[Steve Dambrowski]

How do I make my background image fit the screen so
no one has to scroll, and at the same time it's not
tiled looking??

I have one that is 800x600 and one that is 1084x768.

The small one tiles.. and the big one cuts off the bottom.

http://www.azclan.net/index2.html is currently the larger
jpg.
Thanks
STEve

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(Johnny sleeping with father's new gf)
"On a creepy scale of 1 to 100, that's like a 99 and a half" -Matt
(Father announces they are getting married)
"There goes that half a creep point!" - Matt to his wife SINGLE GUY

[Harlan Messinger]

You don't--there isn't a way to specify the width and height of the
background image different from its intrinsic width and height. And you
really wouldn't want to, since it would be ugly and distorted at many,
if not most, sizes.

Steve Dambrowski wrote:

How do I make my background image fit the screen so
no one has to scroll, and at the same time it's not
tiled looking??

I have one that is 800x600 and one that is 1084x768.

The small one tiles.. and the big one cuts off the bottom.

http://www.azclan.net/index2.html is currently the larger
jpg.
Thanks
STEve

[Lars Eighner]

In our last episode, <e7**********@reader2.panix.com>, the lovely and
talented Steve Dambrowski broadcast on comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:

How do I make my background image fit the screen so
no one has to scroll, and at the same time it's not
tiled looking??

You can't. You can use the smaller image and keep it from repeating
(tiling) with css. Css also allows you to position the background-image
relatively and decide whether it will scroll with window or not. It will
still be cut off if by combination of resolution and browser window size
there isn't room for it. There is no provision for scaling background
images, so you cannot be sure it will fit in every window. Depending upon
the nature of the image you can make it appear fairly seamlessly on the
background through judicious choice of background-color. With photographs
it may be desirable to fade the edges so that a seamless appearance can be
achived. A seamless appearance is easier to achieve with logos and line
drawings in .gif format. This still will fail if the user overrides your
choice of background-color.
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[Neredbojias]

To further the education of mankind, Steve Dambrowski <st****@panix.com>
vouchsafed:

How do I make my background image fit the screen so
no one has to scroll, and at the same time it's not
tiled looking??

Put the image (not bg) in an absolutely-positioned div of 100% width and
height which is z-indexed beneath the rest of the content. Set image size
to 100%. Put all other content in a container of 100% height and width
with overflow:auto.

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Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.

[Steve Dambrowski]

In <Xn**********************************@208.49.80.25 1> Neredbojias <http://www.neredbojias.com/fliam.php?cat=alt.html> writes:

To further the education of mankind, Steve Dambrowski <st****@panix.com>
vouchsafed:

How do I make my background image fit the screen so
no one has to scroll, and at the same time it's not
tiled looking??

Alright.. Well, I got it to work in a way that it's not bad...

Thanks everyone for their help!
STEve

--
(Johnny sleeping with father's new gf)
"On a creepy scale of 1 to 100, that's like a 99 and a half" -Matt
(Father announces they are getting married)
"There goes that half a creep point!" - Matt to his wife SINGLE GUY