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CSS

Em Har
Em Har
9,775 Points
Posted by Em Har
Em Har
9,775 Points

CSS images

How can I make my photo on my website to not be so zoomed in. I want the image to use its full pixels but it seems to be heavily zoomed when I put it into my css code

Tenzing Shema
Tenzing Shema
8,503 Points

try background-image: cover;

here is more info below https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_background-size.asp

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,007 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,007 Points

To be specific, you'd need to show what your current code looks like.

But as a general tip, when using an image as a background in CSS, you can use the "background-size: cover" property setting to be sure the entire image is shown (well, at least all of one dimension).