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Posted by Nils Garland
Nils Garland
18,416 Points

Responsive full screen image

Hi, I want to make a website and I need an image at the top of the page. No matter what screen size it needs to cover the entire page until you scroll. An example would be this page here http://www.qualium-systems.com/. Thanks to any help! :)

2 Answers

David Perkins
David Perkins
9,607 Points

From my experience there's a couple of ways you can achieve this. Quickest way would be to have a full width/full height container and just bang everything in there, or you could use a plugin such as fullPage.js.

I've just written something out on Codepen for you to have a look at here. So i'd probably go with something like this though if you're wanting to do it all without using plugins?

Link: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/LRjNPg

David Perkins
David Perkins
9,607 Points

Just as a sidenote... that Codepen is very, very basic and should only be used just give you the simplest understanding of how to make a full height responsive section at the top of your page. You'll need to obviously factor this into your design and tweak it to fit any other ideas you have.

Hope it helps though :)

Nils Garland
Nils Garland
18,416 Points

Cheers, David!

Jacob Herrington
Jacob Herrington
15,835 Points
Jacob Herrington
Jacob Herrington
15,835 Points

The absolute simplest way to do this is to have:

<div>
</div>

div {
  width: 100%;
  height: 500px; // set this to whatever you want.
  background: url("your-image.jpg") no-repeat center;
  background-size: cover;
}

The example you posted is using a CSS framework called Twitter Bootstrap. It is the most commonly used CSS framework and once you have an understanding of CSS, you should learn it!

Also, to add on to what David said -- you can do this with JS, but it is much slower and harder on a client computer than using CSS.

Nils Garland
Nils Garland
18,416 Points

Hi Jacob! I am solid in CSS and Bootstrap but never came around to doing this. I learnt a lot before I started here at treehouse, thanks for responding :D