Background image positioned behind a carousel

I'm currently working with a Bootstrap carousel that's functioning perfectly, but I have a desire to incorporate a background image behind this carousel. The background image should be at a width of 100% and 80% of the image should be covered by the carousel while it continues to function. I've experimented with adding background-image in the CSS of #homecarousel, attempted some position:absolute tricks (not recommended), and searched through existing posts for solutions, but nothing seems to be working... Essentially, it's like a small rectangle within a larger rectangle, where the small rectangle is a carousel... Any suggestions? I'd prefer a solution using pure CSS over JavaScript manipulation, as I haven't written 90% of the site and it's a jumble of files, so I'd like to make minimal changes. Thanks in advance!

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Answer №1

Thank you for checking this out. I hope this information was helpful to you.

http://codepen.io/DasithKuruppu/pen/MyGZdd

Essentially, I made some adjustments to the code:

carousel-inner>.item>a>img, .carousel-inner>.item>img, .img-responsive,  .thumbnail a>img, .thumbnail>img {

        width: 80%;
        /* left: 50%; */
        margin-left: 10%;
        height: auto;
    }

^ This code snippet changes the inner image of the carousel to be 80% of the container's width, with a 10% margin on the left to center it horizontally.

Additionally, I set the background image to cover instead of contain. Cover will stretch the background image to fill the entire area, potentially altering the original aspect ratio.

Answer №2

Revised Answer

Have you considered using this https://jsfiddle.net/rzc1e1jf/ for your project? (Please note that I included the basic bootstrap components in the external resources)

This time, I decided to start from scratch and everything seems to be functioning properly.

Original answer

If I understand your question correctly, is this the result you are looking for:

http://codepen.io/andrasadam93/pen/BKxvRZ

#carousel-container {
    background-image: url('http://portfoliotheme.org/enigmatic/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2012/07/placeholder1.jpg');
  background-size:cover;
  height:100%;
  width:100%;
  position: absolute;
}


#homecarousel {
    position:relative;
    float:left;
    margin-left:10%;
    width: 80%;
    height:100%;
}
.carousel-inner {
  height:100%;
}

Answer №3

Great news, the issue has been resolved thanks to the help of Dasith Kuruppu. To center the content vertically, all it took was adjusting the code as I had originally suspected. The problem stemmed from a conflicting declaration with another element. Here's the corrected code snippet:

.carousel-inner>.item>a>img, .carousel-inner>.item>img {

width: 90%;
/* left: 50%; */
margin-left: 5%;
margin-right: 5%;
height: 90% ;
margin-bottom:5%;
margin-top: 5%;
}

Thank you once again!

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