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Full background image initially fixed, then scrolls when DIV content ends

I'm trying to figure out how to have a full background image (background-size: cover) be fixed initially (the text over the image scrolls while the image stays put), but, at the moment when the user scrolls down to the end of the content (like a tall block of text), the background then scrolls up revealing a new section/div below.
For example:
<section id="top-section-with-fixed-bg">
<div class="tall-content-1500px">
<p>Text that's really tall</p>
</div>
</section>
<section id="next-section">
...
</section>
But, again, the background image is fixed until the user has scrolled down 1500px and the content for that section/div is done. At that point, the user continues to scroll and the background image scrolls up.
Not, as with parallax solutions, with the background image being covered by the next section. But the background image going up with the scroll.
I'm thinking this takes some javascript, jQuery fixing, but I'm still a bit novice with it. I'm a designer just wanting a site to look and act this certain way. I'm guessing I have to recognize the height of the content, where that ends, and then either tell the CSS to switch from fixed to scroll (without effecting the position of the image), or having the js move the image up with the scroll action.
Update: Here's a quickly tossed together jsfiddle
UPDATED UPDATE:
I think I've found the solution!
With the pointers provided in responses here, then some digging around, I have it kind of working.
I started with trying to figure out how to detect the window height. I plug that into the text/content DIV, using that value for the DIVs height. This is important, to set the container for the text to the height of the user's window, not to a specific height. Then, I set that DIV to overflow: auto (and hide the scrollbar, for aesthetics). That allowed me to set a trigger so when the end of the content in that DIV is reached, the background-attachment is changed from fixed to scroll.
And, voila! It's not perfect, and I'm sure some real javascript/jQuery experts will right my wrongs on it, but I like how far I've gotten with this so far.
I realize that the swtich from fixed to scroll is probably unnecessary. At the moment, when the switch happens, the image jumps a little to adjust to the window size and its own position, now being set to scroll. If I set the CSS originally to fixed, and make sure the content of the DIV (using padding wisely) to cover the window, as the user scrolls with the mouse the correct action will occur: text scrolls until there is no more text, then the image scrolls up.
Check it out and look forward to help and comments.
jsfiddle

have you set background-attachment:fixed;? This makes background images 'move' with the browser scroll. Be careful when it comes to devices though as this method can cause 'laggy looking sites' because there's too much render for the device (depending on image).
I personally target 'large' and 'modern' browsers with this:
#media query and (max-width:600px){
.top-section-with-fixed-bg{background-attachment:fixed;}
}
EDIT:
sorry I didn't fully understand the question. Here's some CSS to get you going
window.addEventListener('scroll',function(){
//document.body.scrollTop would be the windows scroll position.
if(document.body.scrollTop==1500px)
document.getElementById('top-section-with-fixed-bg').style.backgroundAttachment='static';
}else document.getElementById('top-section-with-fixed-bg').style.backgroundAttachment='fixed';
});
I'm very sorry but this is very basic. I'm about to finish work. The function could use a bit of sprucing up a bit like making it dynamic. This is also only native JS. So it's not all that fancy but you get the idea. When the document.body.scrollTop is at the bottom of your element. Which I'm guessing is 1500px tall? IF not use offsetHeight(). That'll give you the complete height of the element including padding and margins and I think borders as well?

I'd set your background images to background-position: fixed; then put the next background image at the bottom of the text so it overlays on top of the first div. Problem is you can't have the nice <section> structure you had going before.
<style type="text/css">
.section-with-fixed-bg {
min-height: 100%;
background-size: cover;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center center;
}
#bg-1 {
background-image: url("./background-1.jpg");
}
#bg-2 {
background-image: url("./background-2.jpg");
}
#bg-2 {
background-image: url("./background-3.jpg");
}
</style>
...
<body>
<div id="bg-1" class="section-with-fixed-bg">
<p>Text that's really tall</p>
<div id="bg-2" class="section-with-fixed-bg">
<p>Next section of text that's really tall.</p>
<div id="bg-3" class="section-with-fixed-bg">
<p>Next section of text that's really tall.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
I haven't tested this but it should cause the new image to overlap the old one, at least in theory.

jquery resize so content is always centered perfectly

I have the following right now, but its not perfect:
$(window).resize(function () {
$("#app-views").height($(window).height() - 140);
});
Basically, I have 75px from top before my content starts, and I have 60px from bottom of the page to my content.
How do I make it so when I resize the window, it will always respect those dimensions? I am using malihu scroll bar, and I am loading my view into #app-views.
I have a border all around the window (10px), a navbar (50px), and 15px of padding until my body. Then, I have 15px bottom padding on body, a footer of height 35px, and 10 px bottom border.
Here is the basic HTML:

If you want your contents to be placed and resized while keeping the same distance from the top and the bottom of the window, you don't have to use jQuery or Javascript. Only CSS would do the trick. Try this without height attribute in your style code:
#app-views {
position: fixed;
top: 75px;
bottom: 60px
}
You can set left and right without width to get the same effect in horizontal dimension.

You say you have specific measurements to place your content on the page
(75px from top before my content starts, and I have 60px from bottom
of the page)
Well with jQuery offset you can get the top position of the element and you can also update the css top position on screen resize so that your content will always adjust its position on resize.
To see where the bottom of your content element is you could find the offset of the top of the content and add the content's height to get the bottom position of the content relative to the top of the page.

I would recommend doing this in CSS, perhaps by dynamically changing the jQuery object's CSS property. I would attend to it with a simple CSS selector. This works even when the window is resized. Have a look:
#app-views {
position: absolute; /*this will allow you to position it exactly where you want it*/
left: 50%; /*this will move the left side of the container halfway across the page*/
transform: translateX(-50%); /*moves the container left by half its width,
so that the centre of the container aligns with the center of the page*/
}
You can adjust the vertical position with the 'top' property and 'translateY()' in a similar way I demonstrated with transform and translateX().
If you want to use jQuery, you could try:
#('app-views').css('position', 'top');
Furthermore, I would also suggest that you do not maintain the 75px at the top of your page for all kinds of screen sizes. 75px may be suitable for a desktop but not for a mobile. If you do intend to make your website fully support mobile, it is often a good idea to design the mobile layout first, as it tends to by simpler. Then, you can use media queries to adjust it for the desktop. It really does work brilliantly. I've used it myself many times before. You can learn more about that here:
MediaQuery CSS

Slideshow to fill Div

I posted a this question last night, but have completely rewritten it because I think it was confusing people, and I also have provided an example to illustrate my problem....
I have a slideshow that I would like to fill a div completely. Right now, if someone visits my site from a narrow browser viewport, the slideshow will only fill the width but not the entire height, therefore leaving space at the bottom of the div.
I would like the slideshow to proportionally scale to fit and cover the entire div, even if cropping from the sides is necessary. Does this make sense what I am asking?
Here's the example: If you visit it right now from a wide or full screen browser window, the images probably fill the entire div. But if you narrow your window and refresh, you will see the bg color at the bottom of the div. Example: http://mudchallenger.com/a-responsivef.html
How can I get this slideshow to fill the div?
Thank you!!
**I should also add, I'm NOT trying to make this fill the screen as a background. I just want it to fill the div.

You need to set the height of the image to 100% and let the width be automatic. This is because the images are of landscape orientation. Then, make sure you have the overflow (maybe just overflow-x) attribute of div.slideshow set to hidden. This will allow the image to scale to the div (the frame) rather than to itself. Here is an example: http://jsfiddle.net/krh121791/rXep9/.
HTML
<div class="slideshow" style="position: relative;">
<img src="http://mudchallenger.com/a-images/backgrounds/bg-1.png" />
</div>
CSS
.slideshow{
height:100%;
width:600px;
overflow:hidden;
}
.slideshow img{
height:100%;
}
A note, you would set the width to 100% and overflow-y to hidden if you have a portrait picture.

page not redrawing on horizontal scroll

When I shrink the width of my browser window (Firefox v26) so that only 1/2 of my home page is shown, the horizontal scrollbar appears on the bottom of the browser, which is fine.
But if I scroll the page to see its right half -- that right half is blank. In other words, after horizontally scrolling to the right (which moves the page's content leftward, obviously) -- the right side of the page does not redraw. It stays blank. Even if I hit the refresh on the browser URL bar.
I looked around and saw several posts. This one seemed to be exactly the same problem (only difference was, theirs involved the vertical scrollbar).
So I took the suggestion there -- which was to set my outermost content div (called wholePageDiv in the code below) and also my outerDiv to 'min-width: 100%" but this changed nothing.
Here's the very simple code:
<html>
<body>
<div id="wholePageDiv" class="wholePageDivForCentering">
<div id="outerDiv" style="margin: 0; margin-top: 10px; min-width: 100%;
display: inline-block; overflow: hidden">
(not shown: a bunch of divs with text)
</div>
</div>
</body>
<html>
Here is the wholePageDivForCentering CSS class, with the change made per that SO post I read:
.wholePageDivForCentering
{
/* width: 100%; */
min-width: 100%;
/* height: 100%; */
min-height: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
margin: 0 auto;
}
I have looked at other websites to see if they exhibit the same "right side of scrolled page does not redraw" problem. On other websites I tested, I shrink the browser to 1/2 the width needed to show the whole page, then I scroll to see the right 1/2 of the page -- all other websites I check are successfully redrawing the right-side content as I scroll.
Do I have a CSS style problem above?
EDIT: I hit F12 in my browser and use the 'Inspector' tool and I clearly see that the only visible content is within the wholePageDiv and this div is not expanding at all, to the right, as I scroll to the right -- the Inspector shows that for whatever reason my outermost wholePageDiv is remaining the same fixed size as the viewport, and when I scroll to the right, this viewport outline as shown by the Inspector simply shifts leftward and does not expand on the right side to accommodate moving the scrollbar to the right.

I have added your html and css in a fiddle and it scrolls fine for me. The text of the div is displayed with no issues: http://jsfiddle.net/micahSan/UucLB/3/
same code as the OP
Can you replicate your problem in a fiddle so we can all see it?

I solved this (for now) by either hard-coding the div's width, or by programmatically increasing the div's width as the width of the browser window/document was changed. Hopefully will find a less kludgy solution later.

Relative Positioning at bottom of the screen issue with Flex and different browsers

I have a flex component like this:
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
...
width="100%"
height="100%"
creationComplete="init()">
.......
<components:NavigationBar id="nagivationBar"
left="0" bottom="0" />
This is supposed to show at the bottom left of the screen considering that parent container fills the screen.
The behaviour I just described shows perfectly with Safari
with Chrome it shows correctly if the download bar beneath is not visible but as soon as the download bar has something it covers the bottom part of it.
and FireFox seems to always hide like 50 pixels or so from the bottom of the screen.
It seems like every browser renders the 100% height in its own way.
What is your recommended best way to overcome this? I can add a 100 pixel margin at the bottom but it's not something I want to do in this application.

Try something like this in the <head></head> section of the HTML page that loads your Flex Application:
<style type="text/css">
html, body{
width: 100%; /* make the body expand to fill the visible window */
height: 100%;
padding: 0 0 0 0;
margin: 0 0 0 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
Not sure it will help in your case but it's easy to try.

You could wrap the output in a containing <div>, then using YUI's getClientRegion, and a resize event for good measure, set the containing div's CSS height property to the value which YUI has determined the available viewport vertical space.
Sorry the solution is an outside-of-Flex one, but it'll work.
Edit: I meant 'getViewportHeight()' not 'getClientRegion()', sorry, check out the APi docs though, there's plenty of goodies in there for this sort of stuff.

Flex is just a flash component in a web page. Its size depends of what is outside of flex. I don't think you'll get a proper answer unless you post HTML/JS code surrounding flex app.
PS. From my experience working with browser height may be very troublesome.

this normally happens when you have one or more positioning elements in a page. Check your code to see if you have used the position element anywhere else in your code, if so are they different, i.e one relative and the other absolute, if so this could be your problem, its reccomended that they are all the same, ie all relative