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Background Image Placement

Hi, I'm trying to set my root LinearLayout element (which is set to fill_parent in both dimensions) to have a background image which is always located in the lower left corner of the screen no matter the orientation of the device. It would be excellent if there were some way to set the background image position such as that which you ca...

CSS Doozie: Replacing BG Image on SELECT dropdown

I need to be able to change the background-image property of a SELECT drop-down using JavaScript/CSS. We have been able to accomplish this in Firefox, but it doesn't appear to be supported at all in IE. From what I've read, IE won't support this. But I'm wondering if there's anything else I could try. Does anyone here have any recommend...

Background image centered and 100% in all browsers

What is the best practice to set a background image centered and 100% (so that it fills the screen, but still retains the aspect ratio) in all browsers? ...

jQuery/JavaScript: Trigger when preloaded

Hello there, jQuery has the .ready() function, but I am unsure whether this is what I need: I set a default background image in CSS (imange 1 out of 4), once document is loaded (images and all, not only DOM); I want to start preloading background image 2 out of 4. Once that is loaded, I want to fade image 1 into image 2. Then I want to...

retrieving background image from div when dynamically set

I am having an issue with setting the background-image of a #x to the background image of #y. Correct me if I am wrong but I think you would do this in a simple case by saying $('#x').css('background-image',$('#y').css('background-image')); The problem is that when y was initially set up, it was set up like this: <div id='y' style...

Setting WPF control background image using styles?

Hi, I have a set of buttons inside a stack panel. I want them all to have a background image. How can i do it using styles? since i don't want to set manually the Background image for each button. Here is a code snippet: <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Height="100px" VerticalAlignment="Top"> <StackPanel.Resources> ...

Add a Transparent image to window background in Java using Netbeans

how to add a background image with transparency to a jFrame in Netbeans. I have added a jPanel to jFrame and all components are in this panel. Also Netbeans allows me to preview various designs for the jFrame. How to apply these designs? I can't find the option to save it. ...

ActionScript : Applying frame to a image / background?

I am editing a custom calendar application in flash. The purpose of this app is to let you select your own images, and create a calendar out of it. You can basically, drag and drop images of your choice and they apply frame/borders, or drag and drop embellishments. Here is the piece of code that draws a border/frame on the embellishment...

How to make CSS URL background images show up in localhost?

Hi guys, I just installed xampp and I brought one of my live sites into it to be able to start working from localhost. So to view my site, I navigate to localhost/example.com I noticed some issues with images when on my html, I had for example: <img src="/new_pictures/05.jpg" alt="Central Market"/> Image wouldn't show up, but then I...

How to change UINavigationBar background image - iphone sdk ?

first of all, i read all "changing uinavigationbar color & backgound image", but i couldnt get over my problem. i have a tabbar app with 4 tabs. each tab has navigationcontroller. (i arranged all the objects in mainwindow.xib file in IB) in thew first tab, i wanna display 1.jpg on navigationbars background image in first view. when the...

CSS Put image at top of page

Hi, I need to have an image at the top-center of a web page in css. Now, Im just using the background-image: in css but this puts it at the middle of the page. Here's my code: body { background-image: url("theimageurlgoeshere"); //The image is 842 x 508 background-attachment:fixed; background-position: center top; background-...

javascript resize background image

Is it possible to resize a background image on load using javascript? I don't care about dynamically resizing the image according to window size or anything, I just want to take large images and resize them to a specific width and height so that the full image fits inside a specific layout. WORK AROUND: I did what the people below sai...

How would I get an img element to render under a background-image in CSS.

Basically, I am trying to put a semi-transparent div over an image to serve as a background for text for a slideshow. Unfortunately, the browser seems intent on always rendering the img over the background-image. Is there any way to fix this? Here is my current CSS for the semi-transparent div: #slideshow .info { height: 80px; ...

Background image fixed with vertical scroll bar in IE, broken by Tapestry5 components/css

I have a gradient background image in my web application, it goes from dark at the top to light at the bottom. In Firefox, this image is handled properly, where upon scrolling vertically downwards on the page, the dark top section disappears. However, when I started testing in IE (I'm using IE8) the background image stays fixed behind t...

Oversize cursor in Firefox form with textbox background image

Hi all, I have a webform with background images on the textboxes to give them a nice rounded corner. In Chrome the textboxes work as expected, however, if I view the form in Firefox the cursor appears to size to the height of the image, but the text is a normal size. Is there a way to override this oversized cursor? Here is the CSS of...

Android: Make application background behave like homescreen background

Hi, I have a big background image for my views's background, which also can be tiled (it's repeadable). When switching from one Activity to another i want the background to behave like on the homescreen (the background moves only a bit, but the foreground moves one screen with). Is this possible and how? Here is my current background d...

css background image displays when user clicks link problem

I updated my post. Now it says "link is not defined" "thisLink[link].scopeObject = new Image();" It's important that the link remains though because it is a property of linkObj that holds the current link. I use the [] as a property rather than dot notation due to the looping ability it provides. <script type="text/javascript"> window....

On Mac, two jpg's whose color should match do not

So I'm designing a myspace page and I have two images, one is a repeating bg image, and another is an image which loads on a layer above it, which acts as a header/masthead. For some reason, on Macs only, and only in the browser (tested in safari and ff), the masthead renders slightly darker than the repeating bg image, creating this co...

UIViewController with background image

Hi all! How can I insert into my UIViewController an image from the resources as background image? thanks in advance! ...

Can we solve the table row background image problem, in chrome, in multi celled tables??

It is frequently asked – but I haven’t seen a good answer yet (and I looked). If you set a background image in CSS to a table row- the image will repeat itself in every cell. If you set the position: relative (for the row) and set the background-image: none (for the cells) it solves the problem on IE but not on chrome! I can't use backgr...