Title: Header image
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Header image

 *  Resolved [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * (@gulliver)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-image-95/)
 * Is there a way to have the header image fully scale rather than crop?
 * I believe ‘background-size: contain;’ will handle that, but the image is then
   not full width on larger resolutions (perhaps because of the ‘section-inner’ 
   class?).
 * And using ‘background-size: 100% auto;’ on smaller resolutions a dark band appears
   above it.

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 *  Theme Author [Anders Norén](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anlino/)
 * (@anlino)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-image-95/#post-4870523)
 * Hi gulliver,
 * I’m not sure what you mean with fully scale. Since the header doesn’t have a 
   fixed aspect ratio (the relation between the height and width fluctuates depending
   on the width of the browser), there’s no way to display all of the header image
   at all times. For the image to cover the entire header, some of the header image
   has to be cropped at some resolutions.
 *  Thread Starter [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * (@gulliver)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-image-95/#post-4870527)
 * Thanks.
 * I’d posted before fully understanding the css cover/contain behavior, and I then
   got further confused when narrowing the browser to see the effect of the media
   queries – noticing how the image became initially cropped and then on further
   narrowing changed again so that more of it was shown before then becoming cropped
   again.

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