Title: Background image issues Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Background image issues * Resolved [beaufugg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beaufugg/) * (@beaufugg) * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-image-issues/) * Hello * My first forum post, forgive me if I’m not savy yet, no smart asses please. * I’m trying to add a background image to a theme that I have used as a starting point to designing a new theme. * I need the image to be horizontaly tiled to 820px wide (it’s a 8px wide by 1276px image [http://www.choicebananas.co.nz/wordpress/wp-content/themes/maze/images/background.gif](http://www.choicebananas.co.nz/wordpress/wp-content/themes/maze/images/background.gif)) and centered behind the main content. * I know this is probably really simple but I’ve been scouring forums for hours now and am stumped!!!! * Any help would be greatly appreciated. * [http://www.choicebananas.co.nz/wordpress](http://www.choicebananas.co.nz/wordpress) * I’ve created a div ‘wrapper’ but have just struggled to get anything to happen… * Cheers Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [vivsin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vivsin/) * (@vivsin) * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-image-issues/#post-873479) * edit your style CSS file * Full body Stretch ( top aligned ) : * In BODY tag add { background:url(image location} repeat-y; } * Fixed width: * Create an id, I think u have done that as ” WRAPPER “ * add this { background:url(image location} repeat-y; margin: 0 auto 0; width: 820px; } * Start this DIV next to in header.php * close this div after Footer in footer.php * Thread Starter [beaufugg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beaufugg/) * (@beaufugg) * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-image-issues/#post-873594) * Thanks so much vivsin * I’ve done all you’ve said and still not working! though not sure what you mean by * > Full body Stretch ( top aligned ) : * background has changed to white now!!! * this is my body css * > body {color: #939393; background-color:#000;font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, > Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;padding- > top: 0px;background:url([http://www.choicebananas.co.nz/wordpress/wp-content/themes/maze/images/background.gif](http://www.choicebananas.co.nz/wordpress/wp-content/themes/maze/images/background.gif)) > repeat-y;} * and this is my wrapper css * > #wrapper { > background:url([http://www.choicebananas.co.nz/wordpress/wp-content/themes/maze/images/background.gif](http://www.choicebananas.co.nz/wordpress/wp-content/themes/maze/images/background.gif)) > repeat-y; margin: 0 auto 0; width:820px; > } * have closed my div in footer.php (which I hadn’t before) * ?!?!?!?!?!?!?! * : ) * [chaoskaizer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaoskaizer/) * (@chaoskaizer) * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-image-issues/#post-873617) * If I understand this correctly, you want the [main content](http://www.choicebananas.co.nz/wordpress/#wrapper)( the posts & sidebar) to have a [horizontal tile bg](http://www.choicebananas.co.nz/wordpress/wp-content/themes/maze/images/background.gif), centered with 820px width. * might want to try the following solution, first [find](http://www.choicebananas.co.nz/wordpress/wp-content/themes/maze/style.css) on line 36 * ``` #container {background:none;position: absolute;min-height: 100%;height: auto;width: 640px;} ``` * replace with * ``` #container {background:none;min-height: 100%;height: auto;width: 640px;} ``` * Next, find on line 51 * ``` #wrapper { background:url(http://www.choicebananas.co.nz/wordpress/wp-content/themes/maze/images/background.gif) repeat-y; margin: 0 auto 0; width:820px; } ``` * replace with * ``` #wrapper { background: #6C6E71 url('/wordpress/wp-content/themes/maze/images/background.gif') repeat-x 0%; margin: 0pt auto; width: 820px; } ``` * Thread Starter [beaufugg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beaufugg/) * (@beaufugg) * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-image-issues/#post-873633) * you rock, lots of little subtle things I’ll have to get my head around but that works fine for this stage. * Thanks so much : ) Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Background image issues’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [background](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/background/) * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/) * [Tile](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tile/) * 4 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [beaufugg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beaufugg/) * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-image-issues/#post-873633) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics