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Posted by Ryan Canty
Ryan Canty
Courses Plus Student 5,665 Points

how can I make my background image fill up the whole width of the screen and resize when I resize my browser?

I want to make my image take up the whole width of my screen, and when I resize the browser I want the image to resize as well. how can I do this?

William Smith
William Smith
4,560 Points

Hello Ryan,

You can make your image cover the entire container that it is in by using background-size: cover in your css.

You can learn more about cover here

Hope this helps.

Will

1 Answer

Marco Caruso
Marco Caruso
5,208 Points
Marco Caruso
Marco Caruso
5,208 Points

I agree with William. You can go about this a couple ways but the easiest would be to target the body element in your css and link an img. Check out these 2 links they will explain it in much greater detail and they're not that long.

body {
    background-image: url("img.gif");
}

check this out to get an idea of how your image will scale with the body div -- https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_rwd_images.asp

and how you display images in your divs -- https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_background-image.asp