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copthesaint

Wed Oct 05, 2011 12:59 pm


CSS -> Header Background Image

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Im just wondering how I could go about doing this in my css style sheet
I want to set an image to stretch to the full size of my header whatever the header size may be.
The image is a gradient png photo and I want it as the background behind my header text.
I am new to css, xhtml, however easy it is, I dont know how to do everything :P
As well I want to know, what is the compatability of text shadows?


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ProgrammingFun

Wed Oct 05, 2011 4:44 pm


RE:CSS -> Header Background Image

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#header {
	background: #FFFFFF url(url/url.jpg) left	center no-repeat;
	height:100%;
	width:100%;
}

It's really recommended that you have fixed (at least width) header otherwise, it may end up looking like crap. Therefore, something like this:

#header {
	background: #FFFFFF url(images/school.jpg) left	center no-repeat;
	height:260px;
	width:960px;
}

As for text shadows, a [url=http://lmgtfy.com/?q=text+shadow+browser+compatibility]Google search produced the following site (pretty good): http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/04/make-cool-and-clever-text-effects-with-css-text-shadow/


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Tony

Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:54 pm


RE:CSS -> Header Background Image

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if it's a simple enough gradient, you can have it implemented in pure CSS3 (no images).


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Zren

Wed Oct 05, 2011 10:18 pm


RE:CSS -> Header Background Image

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If you want a backwards compatible, and fast loading version. Draw the vertical gradient in a image editor. Then shrink the width to 1px.

Then use:
background: url(img/gradient.png) repeat-x;
height: ___px;

Basically it tiles the image only on the x plane.