How do I resize my browser background image?

Using CSS, you can set the background-size property for the image to fit the screen (viewport). The background-size property has a value of cover . It instructs browsers to automatically scale the width and height of a responsive background image to be the same or bigger than the viewport.

How do you resize a background image?

The background-size CSS property lets you resize the background image of an element, overriding the default behavior of tiling the image at its full size by specifying the width and/or height of the image. By doing so, you can scale the image upward or downward as desired.

When the background image is smaller than the browser window?

(b) When the background image is smaller than the browser’s window then it will be shown in boxes in the repeated pattern.

Can You resize the background of a web page?

As in, fill the background of a web page edge-to-edge with an image, no matter the size of the browser window. Also, have it resize larger or smaller as the browser window changes. Also, make sure it retains its ratio (doesn’t stretch weird).

How does the background size property work in CSS?

The background-size CSS property lets you resize the background image of an element, overriding the default behavior of tiling the image at its full size by specifying the width and/or height of the image. By doing so, you can scale the image upward or downward as desired. Let’s consider a large image, a 2982×2808 Firefox logo image.

How can I control the size of my background image?

If we can get our hands on the exact pixel width of the browser window, we can use that number in the width attribute of the image and control its size while retaining the ratio. We can, again, use jQuery and the dimensions plugin to get our browser window’s width.

What to do when image does not change when resizing browser?

You can use the media query min-device-width, instead of min-width, which checks the device width, instead of the browser width. Then the image will not change when you resize the browser window: