Title: Formatting background
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Formatting background

 *  [swagsyndicate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swagsyndicate/)
 * (@swagsyndicate)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-background/)
 * I’m having a little trouble formatting the background for my site to fix right
   on the side and bottom. Does anyone know what dimensions I should be using? I
   normally have it set to fixed in the coding and it works this way.
 * Any ideas?
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 *  [noahjonah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noahjonah/)
 * (@noahjonah)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-background/#post-3258311)
 * This kind of approach has worked for me before.
    [http://www.onextrapixel.com/2012/03/02/using-css-background-size-responsively/](http://www.onextrapixel.com/2012/03/02/using-css-background-size-responsively/)
 * Or:
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/background-manager/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/background-manager/)
 *  Thread Starter [swagsyndicate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swagsyndicate/)
 * (@swagsyndicate)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-background/#post-3258324)
 * I’m going to need a simpler solution than that tutorial and the plug-in doesn’t
   work because I don’t have the right PHP? Anyone else?
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-background/#post-3258325)
 * How do you want it to look? Which sides do you want it fixed on?
 *  Thread Starter [swagsyndicate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swagsyndicate/)
 * (@swagsyndicate)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-background/#post-3258326)
 * It looks a bit better now that I’ve tweaked it in Photoshop, but is there anyway
   to find out the dimensions of the background?
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-background/#post-3258327)
 * That theme has no set or minimum width background so it will expand to the size
   of the browser window. The #container div is set to 936px width — so that’s the
   area that will be covered up by the content of the page. Your background image
   is 1750px × 853px.
 *  Thread Starter [swagsyndicate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swagsyndicate/)
 * (@swagsyndicate)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-background/#post-3258330)
 * I’m hoping for it to look the same on as computers as it does on mine. What would
   be the best way to set it up so it doesn’t look too different on other computers.
   I know that’s impossible, but what I’m doing is probably not the best way to 
   go around it. Do you suggest I make it 936px width? Also should I leave as fixed?
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-background/#post-3258331)
 * I’m not sure what you mean by the “same as on my computer.” What is it that you
   want it to look like — I’m guessing a certain amount of the background to show
   on the side(s)?

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