Background Image Scaling While Maintaining Aspect Ratio

Question

I would like to have images for my background that change automatically like a slide show. But I would like the images to fill the background no matter what size the browse

Answer 1

You can not reliably resize background images across all browsers/versions etc...

The effect you see on thesixtyone.com site is achieved by stretching a normal inline image to 100% of it's container which is a placeholder division. Other elements are then floated over the top of this 'background' division.

So the answer is not to use a background image, but to make an image fill the screen in a placeholder, then put other elements on top of it.