Supersized - Full Screen Background Slideshow jQuery Plugin. Backstretch: a simple jQuery plugin that allows you to add a dynamically-resized background image to any page. Advertisement a simple jQuery plugin that allows you to add a dynamically-resized, slideshow-capable background image to any page or element by Scott Robbin Download Backstretch Now link to a hosted copy on cdnjs.com or download the entire project, including examples. Do you see the full-sized background image on this page? In a nutshell, that's what Backstretch does. It will stretch any image to fit the page or block-level element, and will automatically resize as the window or element size changes.
Images are fetched after your page is loaded, so your users won't have to wait for the (often large) image to download before using your site. Demos Where can I get it? If you are interested in learning more about Backstretch, it's recommended that you view the project on GitHub. Support Basic support is offered through Github's issues tracker. If you are in need of immediate support, Email Support is available for $17. Other jQuery Plugins. Jquery-tubular - a jQuery plugin for full-size YouTube video backgrounds. Demo: seanmccambridge.com/tubular Usage is straightforward and requires JavaScript on the client's browser to work. Tubular is a jQuery plugin and therefore relies on jQuery. You will need to know the YouTube ID of the video you want to use as well as the container DIV of your web page. Please note, tubular must be deployed on a web server to function. The YouTube player will not work when loaded into your browser from your machine. 1.
jQuery must appear BEFORE tubular in your HTML document. 2. 3. That's it! Please note that tubular will change the structure of your CSS. Using jQuery for Background Image Animations. After reading Dave Shea's article on CSS Sprites using jQuery to produce animation effects, I felt like playing around with things to see what could be done but accomplish it with a simpler HTML structure (no need for adding superfluous tags) and simpler code, too. Changing the position of the background image felt to be the best approach to creating the type of effect we're looking for (and I'm not the first to think so: see the examples at the end of this article). jQuery is a great library for this type of task but out of the box, it can't animate background position properly because of the need to animate two values instead of just one (too bad not all browsers implemented the non-standard background-position-x and -y like Internet Explorer).
You'll have to use the Background-Position plugin that is linked in the demo (the original plugin is no longer available on the jQuery site). Previous versions didn't support negative or decimal values properly. The HTML The Basic CSS The Image. jQuery Backstretch by Scott Robbin. Advertisement a simple jQuery plugin that allows you to add a dynamically-resized, slideshow-capable background image to any page or element by Scott Robbin Download Backstretch Now link to a hosted copy on cdnjs.com or download the entire project, including examples. Do you see the full-sized background image on this page? In a nutshell, that's what Backstretch does.
It will stretch any image to fit the page or block-level element, and will automatically resize as the window or element size changes. Images are fetched after your page is loaded, so your users won't have to wait for the (often large) image to download before using your site. Demos Where can I get it? If you are interested in learning more about Backstretch, it's recommended that you view the project on GitHub. Support Basic support is offered through Github's issues tracker.
If you are in need of immediate support, Email Support is available for $17. Other jQuery Plugins.