Questions tagged [background]
Background typically refers to the rendering behind a container element's contents - usually on a web page, Windows form or other UI presentation medium.
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Stretch and scale a CSS image in the background - with CSS only
I want that my background image stretch and scale depending on the browser viewport size.
I've seen some questions on Stack Overflow that do the job, like Stretch and scale CSS background for ...
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How do I run a node.js app as a background service?
Since this post has gotten a lot of attention over the years, I've listed the top solutions per platform at the bottom of this post.
Original post:
I want my node.js server to run in the background, ...
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How to detect when an Android app goes to the background and come back to the foreground
I am trying to write an app that does something specific when it is brought back to the foreground after some amount of time. Is there a way to detect when an app is sent to the background or brought ...
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How set background drawable programmatically in Android
To set Background:
RelativeLayout layout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.background);
layout.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.ready);
Is the best way to do it?
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How to get div height to auto-adjust to background size?
How do I get a div to automatically adjust to the size of the background I set for it without setting a specific height (or min-height) for it?
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What is the difference between background and background-color
What's the difference between specifying a background color using background and background-color?
Snippet #1
body { background-color: blue; }
Snippet #2
body { background: blue; }
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SwiftUI - How do I change the background color of a View?
Is there a straightforward way to change the background of a View using SwiftUI?
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How to make gradient background in android
I want to create gradient background where the gradient is in the top half and there's a solid color in the bottom half, like in this image below:
I can't because the centerColor spreads out to cover ...
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setBackground vs setBackgroundDrawable (Android)
I want to set background drawable of a view. There are two methods for this (as far as I see): setBackground and setBackgroundDrawable.
When I use setBackground, it says it has been added in API ...
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CSS: background image on background color
I have panel which I colored blue if this panel is being selected (clicked on it). Additionally, I add a small sign (.png image) to that panel, which indicates that the selected panel has been already ...
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How to set background color of a View
I'm trying to set the background color of a View (in this case a Button).
I use this code:
// set the background to green
v.setBackgroundColor(0x0000FF00 );
v.invalidate();
It causes the Button to ...
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Stretch background image css?
<td class="style1" align='center' height='35'>
<div style='overflow: hidden; width: 230px;'>
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<span id='name&...
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Android WebView style background-color:transparent ignored on android 2.2
I'm struggling to create a WebView with transparent background.
webView.setBackgroundColor(0x00FFFFFF);
webView.setBackgroundDrawable(myDrawable);
Then I load a html page with
<body style="...
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How do I set a Windows scheduled task to run in the background? [closed]
Does anyone know how to set a scheduled task to run in background using Windows Task Scheduler?
There doesn't seem to be any option to do this.
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Full screen background image in an activity
I see many applications that use a full-screen image as background.
This is an example:
I want to use this in a project, the best way I've found so far to do this is to use an image with a large size,...
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