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My site's background image is resizing nicely in Chrome and Safari using background-size: cover, but when I go to test my website on an ipad or iphone, the CSS background image is really zoomed in and looks horrible. I've read lots of other questions on here relating to this and none have solved my problem.
HTML
<div class="background">
</div><!--background-->
.background has no container and is 100% width of the screen.
CSS
.background {
height:600px;
width:100%;
position:relative;
background: url(css/img/strand.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
}
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Using CSS, you can set the background-size property for the image to fit the screen (viewport). The background-size property has a value of cover . It instructs browsers to automatically scale the width and height of a responsive background image to be the same or bigger than the viewport.
Make sure the image path is set correctly in the background-image url. Once you have made sure that your CSS file is linked correctly, also check that the image itself is set correctly. Again, you will want to open your code inspector in the browser to check.
When you work with background images, you may want an image to stretch to fit the page despite the wide range of devices and screen sizes. The best way to stretch an image to fit the background of an element is to use the CSS3 property, for background-size, and set it equal to cover.
Here's how to create responsive background images with CSS: Use the background-size property to encompass the viewport. Give this property a cover value that will tell a browser to scale the background image's heights and width so that they always remain equal to or greater than the height/width of the device viewport.
I had the same issue, I used SCROLL instead of FIXED.
background-attachment:scroll;
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