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Stretching Background Image

Lesson 23 from: Build a Responsive Website Using HTML5 & CSS3

Daniel Walter Scott

Stretching Background Image

Lesson 23 from: Build a Responsive Website Using HTML5 & CSS3

Daniel Walter Scott

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Lesson Info

23. Stretching Background Image

Lessons

Class Trailer

Getting Started

1

How This Class is Structured

01:41
2

What to Download

02:57

Introduction to HTML & CSS

3

Creating Our First Webpage

05:55
4

What is HTML5 & CSS3

08:24
5

Head vs. Body vs. Html Tag

09:01
6

Title & Description

05:54
7

What Code Editor Should I Use

02:42
8

Using Diy Tags

06:26
9

What is a CSS Class

09:05
10

How to Create Nested Divs

05:03
11

Class Project

05:24
12

External CSS

09:07
13

Creating Our Index Style Pages

12:16

Project 1: Restaurant Website

14

Testing Your Website

08:47
15

Check Your Code For Errors

11:01
16

What are HTML5 Structure Tags

05:47
17

Add HTML5 structure elements

16:02
18

How to Set the Color of the Background

05:10
19

Adding Images to a Website

04:38
20

How to Center an Image

01:14
21

Change the Font Size & Color

14:11
22

Make a Clickable Link

08:45
23

Stretching Background Image

05:38
24

Making a Div Tag Transparent

02:36
25

Simple Website Text Navigation

06:43
26

CSS Compound Classes

07:02
27

Class Project 02

02:05
28

Class Project 02 - COMPLETE

04:48
29

Add an Email Button to a Website

03:49
30

Add Google Maps to Your Website

11:25
31

Making a Website Live

16:50
32

Uploading via SFTP

11:50
33

Setting Up Our New Project

03:46

Project 2: Bike Repair Website

34

CSS Reset

15:22
35

Min-height vs. Height

07:01
36

Div Tags Onto One Line

05:23
37

Getting div tags onto one line using Flexbox in HTML & CSS

05:23
38

Evenly Spaced Div Tags

04:42
39

Two Div Tags of Different Sizes

07:13
40

Vertically Center Content

07:20
41

Class Project 3

02:51
42

Class Project 3 - COMPLETE

05:39
43

Change Default Fonts

04:19
44

Installing Google Fonts

12:44
45

What are PX & EM & REM

14:56
46

Change Line Height

04:33
47

SVG vs. JPG vs. PNG

07:04
48

How to Create a SVG, JPG, or PNG

11:00
49

Block Images vs. Background Images

08:32
50

Finishing Up Our Cards

09:10
51

Icons via Font Awesome

16:31
52

Making a Div Container Clickable

09:55
53

Box-sizing & Border-box

06:19
54

How to Make A Colored Button

07:46
55

Why Can't I Add Margin or Paddding

11:08
56

Rounded Corners

04:17
57

Drop Shadows

06:24
58

Backup Your Website

05:00
59

Reusing a Button Class

03:10
60

Class Project 04

02:58
61

Class Project 04 -COMPLETE

05:45
62

Adding a Horizontal Rule

03:51
63

Make Divs Wrap Onto Separate Lines

12:14
64

Hover Color & Animating a Button

03:33
65

Pseudo Classes

09:31
66

Simple Dropdown Navigation

20:04
67

Adding Our Dropdown to the Website

14:50
68

Useful Shortcuts and Tips in VS Code

13:28
69

Large Background Image

09:24
70

How to Connect 2 Pages

10:42
71

Simple PHP Form Work

17:49
72

Placeholder Form Text

05:46
73

Multi Line Form Text Box

02:18
74

Form Check Marks

03:04
75

Form Radio Button

06:07
76

Form Drop Down Menu

05:48
77

How to Style Your Form

12:55

Project 3: Responsive Portfolio Website

78

What does responsive website design mean

04:17
79

How to change a website layout size color when at different sizes using media queries

11:28
80

How to test your website on a tablet or mobile phone from Visual Studio Code

06:00
81

How to change the layout of a responsive website for mobile vs desktop

16:02
82

How to turn things on and off for mobile tablet & desktop responsive websites

06:03
83

What is pixel density responsive images pixel ratio dp px in webdesign

14:47
84

How to export responsive images for website from XD Photoshop Illustrator

05:11
85

How to add responsive images to website using 100% width in HTML & CSS

06:08
86

How to use srcset to change images in HTML for responsive website

10:15
87

How to add a css style to the first line of a p tag on a website (

11:18
88

How to make the header footer full width but the inside centered

05:36
89

Class Project 05 – Header design

03:12
90

Class Project 05 – Header design COMPLETE

06:25
91

How to use a span tag or span class in HTML to change text

10:32
92

How to pin the navigation to the top of a website fixed nav

03:17
93

How to make a simple responsive mobile menu using CSS only

08:21
94

What is Javascript vs Jquery in website web design

06:35
95

How to make a burger menu 3 line mobile navigation for a website

15:11
96

How to switch a menu nav from desktop to mobile phone

21:45

Project 4: Bootstrap Yogurt Website

97

Overview of what Bootstrap 4 is in website design

07:57
98

How to install Bootstrap 4 on a website using Visual Studio Code

06:27
99

Quick overview of how the Bootstrap Grid Layout works in VS Code

10:49
100

Quick overview of how Bootstrap Components works in VS Code

09:23
101

Quick overview of how Bootstrap CSS Styles works in VS Code

08:20
102

How to customize the default Bootstrap 4 css styles

13:51
103

How to use Bootstrap Layout Grid Experiment 1

10:20
104

How to make 100% header & uneven widths in Bootstrap 4

07:16
105

How to create uneven col widths in Bootstrap 4

07:27
106

How to add padding & margins using Bootstrap 4 in VS Code

12:03
107

How to change layout of Bootstrap depending on mobile or desktop

15:46
108

How to turn things on & off on your website using Bootstrap 4

05:30
109

Google Chrome Inspect

12:40
110

Add Shadows to Text & Boxes

07:06
111

Change the Default Buttons

06:16
112

Responsive Images in Bootstrap 4

09:34
113

How to Center Text & Div Tags

04:16
114

Customize the Bootstrap Navbar

07:29
115

Add Your Own Logo

03:58
116

Change the Default Nav Styles

12:12
117

Fix the Navigation to the Top

04:41
118

Col Images & Col Background

07:56
119

Bootstrap Border & Rounded Corners

04:20
120

Bootstrap 4 Carousels

05:13
121

Card Groups

03:29
122

Drop Shadows On Bootstrap Cards

02:25
123

Clickable Boxes in Bootstrap 4

04:02

Final Quiz

124

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

Stretching Background Image

everyone. It's time to replace our boring gray background with our exciting background image. It's cool. It's kind of stretchy fits in their covers, all the background looks neat. I'm not sure what we're eating but it kind of looks tasty. You'll, the irony is a vegetarian but the meat looks so good. Especially in these kind of photographs. Anyway, let's get in and work out how to do the background. Alright, to add our background image. It's a little bit strange. The previous video or one of the previous videos, we added our image and we added it to the html and it appeared at the top of our document here. And it's great. The only trouble with adding it to your html is that you can't have things over the top or at least not very easily. So we want it in the kind of background and we want it to be more of an effect rather than something you can interact with just kind of hiding at the back. So it's more like a style let's say. Okay, so we added in the CSS styles so we do it here in our s...

tyles dot CSS and we add it to. Which one should we add it to remember our tag that covers the whole background that we made gray. It's the same tag. Okay, so the body tag here, we made gray. We can leave gray there and I leave the background color there normally because sometimes it takes a little while for the image to load. So at least there's something in the background until it loads and the way to do it Well named okay. It's called background hyphen image. Nice. The one thing that isn't very clear is what to do next. Okay. And it's U R. L. It's one of those options in there. So you are l it's a background image, your RL inside of that bracket. Sorry. Yeah, the brackets you type where it goes. So it's going to be in images forward slash and as soon as you have the forward slash and the CSS it says, hey, do you mean this image? The logo And you're like, no, no, we're not that not that I'm a logo. I want another image that I've used for the background so I've saved it for you in your exercise files. So you need to come out to your finder, Find your exercise files, find project one there's one in here called background copy it. I'm using command C on a Mac control C on a pc. Just stop. You're going to paste it into this images folder along with the logo. Now, hopefully I can delete the ford slash. There you go. Type it back in and it says do you mean this guy, you're like, I do, that's the guy or girl. Let's put in our semicolon, it's safe and let's see if it worked and that might be enough. You might be like done, move on. But if you're like me and you see the moment. Kind of doesn't do exactly what I want, you might like it. Okay. But at the moment I wanted to kind of move. So if somebody's looking on a smaller screen that the image is still kind of centered, there's a really nice easy CSS class that we can use. Okay, we're not a class attribute. So it is called background another good one. Background size and this is one thing called cover. So background size cover will allow us to do that. Let's give it a go. Resize woo. Nice. Now see down the bottom that it repeats because the ratio of this thing is a bit weird and you know the image that we've got doesn't quite fit in there. So it has to do something at the moment it's repeating it. So let's have a look at getting rid of the repeat. It's going to be half our problem fixed. So we say background repeat. Okay, so background please. I'd like to set it to no repeat please. Awesome. Let's give it a go. It's gone. But it's great boxes there you've got to decide how much that annoys you. Okay? Because the next thing we need to do is a little bit kind of strange. And so to make this work okay, what you do is the body is the tag we've been working with, right? But there is an overarching tag over everything called html and to make that go away. Okay. You've got to put in another tag just above it and say I'd like the html tag To have a height of 100 height of 100 percent. That fixes that I'm not even sure why. But that's what we do, depends. Like I said sometimes in web design I can explain it to you and sometimes I can't. Okay, so there you go covering it fits. It's nice. And one more thing if you're getting picky is that it's kind of centered and stays in there but it's not quite centered. You're like why aren't you quite centered? You can mess around with the background, what is it called? Background. A line. If I spelled it Alright. Background alignment. No, it's background man, position. That's it. Okay, so background position and we've opened center semi colon and that should fix that. So now instead of it will go from the center rather than kind of left and right. Mm hmm. Yeah, I like it. Now one thing if you are following along on a really small screen, you're like, I can't even make it do it that dan. It's true. I just thought of that. Then I'm like if you have a really small screen, it's gonna be really hard to like drag it out big enough to make it do all the kind of re sizing bits. So that's something to know. I guess what you're doing then for like you probably can get away with pretty much all of that gone. And the trouble will be is when somebody like me with a giant screen opens it up and goes, hey, it's looking not looking nice. So if you are working on a really small laptop and you're like, I can't even test this stuff and later on and of course I'm going to show you how to like fake being a really big screen. But yeah, I just thought I'd add that there just in case you're like, I can't make that work, but it is potentially necessary. Alright, Background image is done and dusted.

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