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[Robert Lyon <robertl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is a css option

 background-size: cover;

that scales the background image to be as large as possible so that the
background area is completely covered by the background image. Some
parts of the background image may not be in view within the background
positioning area. http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_background-
size.asp

However the background-size property is only supported in IE9+, Firefox
4+, Opera, Chrome, and Safari 5+ and not IE 8.

but saying that I notice that IE 11 was launched last week so we could
probably drop support for IE8 so then we could use this css option :)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1243219

Title:
  Have 'stretch' or resize-to-fit option for skin images

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Having done some testing with the new skins feature on Mahara dev I thought it would be useful to be able to auto-resize the image to fit the background in a scalable way. Currently the options are to tile horizontally, vertically, both or none - but there are times when repeating the image doesn't look right, and background colours can be messy if the image used doesn't quite fit the available space. While the current options are fine if you are using a small image with repeatable edges (a technique I use for theme design for other sites) it doesn't work if you use a larger image that isn't designed with repeating in mind.
  Thanks, Gordon.

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