Nichter98 Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Hi, first time poster, glad to be here. I am designing a Twitter background for work. I used 1024x768. It looked perfect on my computer and firefox. However, when i checked on another computer with a smaller monitor and running explorer, the background was way off. You could only see a very small part of it. Guess my question is there a way for that background to resize automatically in explorer? Why does it look right in firefox? Thanks in advance. Here is the linkwww.twitter.com/uclublouisville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 You can't resize a background, if you want to do something like it you have to make it a regular image that you can change the size of, and use z-index to float it behind all of the other content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescientist Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 If you looked at it with IE on your computer, I think it would look the same as in FF. I think the key here is browser window size, not which browser you are using. Since the image is a fixed width, developed to the resolution of your monitors window, you will see things correctly, but in a smaller window, part of the picture will get clipped. A way to overcome this would be to set the image as the background-image of a div. A div will automatically take up the entire width of its available area, and thus will scale based on window size A smaller window will create a smaller div, and the image behind it will scale accordingly. Same thing goes for a larger window though, say greater than 1024px so create your images accordingly, to be as large as you think anyone would ever see it. Or assign a max-width to your div of 1024px to keep the image from getting to big. Hope that makes since, I might have gotten the terminology wrong with screen size, resolution, browser window, etc, but I'm sure someone will come along and clarify some more as well if I didn't make any sense, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescientist Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 You can't resize a background, if you want to do something like it you have to make it a regular image that you can change the size of, and use z-index to float it behind all of the other content.or I could be completely wrong, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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