An IE behavior adding support for background-size
to IE8.
Progressive Enhancement is the mantra I live by. It means "Have fun with CSS3 and don't worry about IE8 users; they'll never notice they're missing out on your gorgeous text-shadows and gradients, anyway".
All was well until I discovered the elegance of background-size: cover;
and background-size: contain;
.
The first one, for instance, allows an image to completely cover a background,
without having to send a 1920x1080 background image down the pipes.
Unfortunately, they don't degrade gracefully: websites would likely appear broken to IE8 users :-( ...unless you use this behavior!
Upload backgroundsize.min.htc
to your website, along with the .htaccess
that will send the mime-type required by IE (Apache only — it's built in nginx, node and IIS).
Everywhere you use background-size
in your CSS, add a reference to this file.
.selector {
background-size: cover;
/* The url is relative to the document, not to the css file! */
/* Prefer absolute urls to avoid confusion. */
-ms-behavior: url(/backgroundsize.min.htc);
}
The elements styled this way should have a position: relative;
or position: fixed;
and a z-index.
If not, they will be given a position: relative;
and z-index: 0;
.
This polyfill inserts an <img/>
in the background of all elements matched in the css to emulate the background-size
value.
Calculating the displayed position and size of this image is quite complex and function of numerous parameters:
- the size of the element itself
- the size of the image
- the values of background-[size/position/clip/origin/attachment/scroll]
It is thus impossible to emulate background-size
completely and perfectly. But it's still possible to enjoy the main features:
- correct position and size of the background image
- updated position and size on browser resize
- updated image, position and size when the background-image is modified
The following style properties, values or behavior aren't supported:
- multiple backgrounds (although the :after trick can still be used)
- 4 values syntax of
background-position
- any
repeat
value inbackground-repeat
- non-default values of background-[clip/origin/attachment/scroll]
- resizing the background when the dimensions of the element change
Removing any of these limitations is probably just one fork away...
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- Added support for:
- Dynamically changing position and size of the background image (partial reimplementation of #8)
- Dynamically changing background image with CSS classes
- Dynamically setting background image to
none
(#13) - Lengths and percentages for background size (partial reimplementation of #8, #19)
- Lengths for background position
- Debouncing window resize events (alternative implementation of #17)
- Cloning polyfilled elements (#2)
background-attachment: fixed
forbody
(#22)
- Fixed:
- JS error when using
left
ortop
forbackground-position
(#14, #21, #24) - Other "Invalid argument" /
NaN
JS errors (#11, #16, #23) - JS error when printing
- JS error when using
- Use standard HTC XML tags (#10)
- Work around IE hang on unload when the JScript portion is greater than 512 bytes
- Added unit tests, grunt build process
- Misc fixes and code cleanup
- Initial release