Title: CSS Background Sizing
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# CSS Background Sizing

 *  [TMo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmo/)
 * (@tmo)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-background-sizing/)
 * I’m trying to get my background image (simulating columns, instead of using column
   background colours), to stretch a certain way. But I’m not sure how to go about
   it.
    Basically, if you look at [http://tekmonki.com/tindex.php](http://tekmonki.com/tindex.php)
   you’ll see the the diag background on either side of the content. I want that
   part to fill the rest of the window to the left/right regardless of resolution.
   From what I can find on the web, to achieve this you make a huge-width image 
   and then specify “min-width” and it will stretch it to fit. What I don’t get 
   though is how it knows what size the inner columns are supposed to be. Is there
   some ratio or something?

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 *  Thread Starter [TMo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmo/)
 * (@tmo)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-background-sizing/#post-109790)
 * Hello?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-background-sizing/#post-109795)
 * Do you want the left and right of the content to be a single column on each side?
   This is hard to explain from what I’ve seen…… the best thing to to is use a small
   image, and have that repeat to fill the screen.
    [http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns/](http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns/)
   If you grabbed one of those, set that for the body background it should fill 
   whatever is not content. You could dig through one and then use something to 
   alter the colours to suit ?
 *  Thread Starter [TMo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmo/)
 * (@tmo)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-background-sizing/#post-109796)
 * No.
    Check . . . [http://ibeginwithanidea.com/](http://ibeginwithanidea.com/)
   View his background image. See how it’s 2000px wide? He’s also set a min-width
   in the style sheet of 830px, I assume this is what’s compressing it to fit. I’ve
   emailed him, but no response yet.

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 * Last reply from: [TMo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmo/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-background-sizing/#post-109796)
 * Status: not resolved

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