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CSS

Posted by Fernando Boza
Fernando Boza
25,384 Points

My background keeps scrolling on my iPhone Chrome/ Safari

Hi folks, on my site I have a my background attachment fixed. It works fine on desktop, and android phones. But on my iPhone, the background keeps scrolling and since I have repeat to no, it becomes the background color.

You can check it out here

body {

    font-family: 'Lobster', helvetica neue, helvetica, ariel;
    font-weight: normal;
    line-height: 1.3;
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding: 0 5%;
    background-color: #1b212c;
    background-image: url("../img/bgIMG.jpg");
    background-attachment: fixed;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    color: #fff;
}
Fernando Boza
Fernando Boza
25,384 Points

Ok to the best of my knowledge and research it looks like the CSS rule background-attachment is automatically disabled on iOS, but it runs fine on Android though(tested it myself).

One thing that kind of helped was

background-size : cover;

It basically covered my screen where there is a scroll-able page. It's not the ideal solution but it's something folks

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Michal Janecek
Michal Janecek
8,194 Points
Michal Janecek
Michal Janecek
8,194 Points

There is an issue with using background-attachment: fixed with background-size: cover on IOS devices (http://caniuse.com/#search=background-attachment ... the known issues section). From quick search on the web you can try and use a div covering the whole viewport and set background image to it like this:

<div style="
width:100%;
height:100%;
background-image:url("mybg.jpg");
background-size:cover;
position: fixed;
z-index:-1;">
</div>
Fernando Boza
Fernando Boza
25,384 Points

Hi Michal thanks and I tried fixing it using that method but no good.

But thanks for the update.

1 Answer

Fernando Boza
Fernando Boza
25,384 Points

My solution 

body {
    background-attachment: fixed; //for web and supported mobile devices
    background-repeat: no-repeat; //
    background-size: cover; // for iphone devices
    color: #fff;
}