Correct CSS / JS parameters to fill div - javascript

I have a slideshow that I would like to fill a div completely.
Right now, if someone visits my site from a narrow browser viewport, the slideshow will only fill the width but not the entire height, therefore leaving space at the bottom of the div.
I would like the slideshow to proportionally scale to fit and cover the entire div, even if cropping from the sides is necessary. Does this make sense what I am asking?
Here's the example:
If you visit it right now from a wide or full screen browser window, the images probably fill the entire div. But if you narrow your window and refresh, you will see the bg color at the bottom of the div. Example:
http://mudchallenger.com/a-responsivef.html
How can I get this slideshow to fill the div?
Thank you!!

You can probably change your position:absolute for slideshow class
.slideshow {
position: absolute;
}

You're looking for a way to make your background image fit the back of the page. What Ed is looking for is the CSS/JS that you currently have, so we can better tell you what you should do differently.
This article gives great examples of different ways of achieving what you're asking for:
Perfect Full Page Backgrounds
And if you're interested in another way, here's a JS library that does it as well.
Backstretch
Without seeing your code, that's as good an answer as can be given.

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Parallax background image that fills container

I'm using stellar.js to apply a parallax effect to a background image. The height of the container around the background image is set by javascript to the window height minus the height of the header. I have the background image set to cover in css and want it to fill the container regardless of the screen size. This works fine with no parallax effect, but once I apply the parallax effect the positioning changes, so when the container is tall the image doesn't fill it.
I spoke to Mark Dalgleish, the creator of stellar.js to see if he had any ideas, and he said that the background image has to be taller than the container for it to fill it, which is pretty much the conclusion I had come to. So I'm wondering if there is a different way I can accomplish this. Does anyone have any ideas?
Here's the site I'm trying to make it work on. If you resize the browser window by pulling it in from the side and reload the page you will see what I mean. There's a gap below the image.
http://sonomarinwebdesign.com/agnitio
I'm not quite sure if this would work but something to try is to add javascript that runs when the page resizes:
$(function() {
$(window).resize(function() {
// replace "100" with whatever makes it the best height:
var newHeight = ($(window).height() - 100);
var pictureHeight = 823;
if (newHeight > pictureHeight) newHeight = pictureHeight;
$(".an-yee-tsee-o.parallax.panel-pane").height(newHeight + "px");
});
});
The point here is that you want to resize the parallax background panel when the window is resized. Even if this isn't quite right, hopefully it gets you on the right track. Best of luck!
Note - I was trying to fix the way the site looks when you load it on a "short" screen and then resize the browser larger. For your issue of the background not filling you can scale your background image up for that in a tool such as gimp for larger screens (or get a larger image to start with).
EDIT - Added code to make sure the div never ends up larger than the picture. You can also run this same code on load. It might not look as originally intended but it should work at least.
I finally solved this by using skrollr.js instead of stellar.js, and then setting the background image to "background-attachment: fixed" in the css. The scripts give a similar effect, but scrollr.js starts with the top offset at 0 so it doesn't leave a gap below the image.

Responsive Images in dynamic div

At first I want to show you what I want to create.
Example! ! Here you have to go on "Galerien" and now resize the Browser in height or width. You see that the images/divs automatically fits on the container.
There is no problem when you only keep attention on the width, but you have to combine width and height that no image overflow the container. I worked with javascript and i want to create if conditions to prevent the overflow.
It is hard to explain, but i hope the example show my problem.
Thanks a lot.

Help me create an iPad photos-like gallery with JavaScript

I've been playing around with a gallery similar to that of the iPad's photos app, where you have thumbnails neatly stacked and upon clicking(touching) they fly out in a grid layout. If one gallery/stack is already open when you click another stack, the photos should pile up at their original position before the next set animates out.
I though something like Isotope would be helpful here, but I'm having a real hard time making it stop overwriting itself. Also, I can't quite figure out how to make it seem as if the thumbnails fly out from the "cover image".
I put a simplified version of what I've got so far on JSFiddle.
Any help is greatly appreciated. I feel like I'm in a little over my head here :)
My question is: how do i make it seem as if the thumbnails fly out from the "cover image"?
You could have an absolutely positioned DIV with a full-size image inside.
Initially, position the div and scale the image such that it perfectly overlaps with the thumbnail.
Then, animate the location and size of both to bring them to the center of the screen at the size you want.

Fade text out when scrolling

Basically what I have is a page with a background image and when I have content which is quite long and overflows. I want the text to be inside that image and it appears to fade out when scrolling at the end of the image and the top of the image. I do not want internal scrollbars. The background image itself is fixed and centered and I want the text to always remain inside there.
Is this possible? if this is not clear then I will try and explain myself further.
I have looked at options in Jquery and CSS fading but cannot find exactly what i want.
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks
H
I would suggest you plant an image overlay (white to transparent) at the top and bottom of the div, but that might not work because of your background...could we perhaps see the background you are using?
The two images Nexxeus says should be placed in a fixed position at the top and bottom of the browser. You shouldn't touch what the overflow does, since it will be hidden below the two images.

Autoresize Element (div) to Fit Horizontal Content

I tried googling, but didn't come up with much. I'm building a horizontal carousel which displays images in a LI, floated. The issue I want to solve is, everytime I add thumbnails to the carousel (I'm lazy loading), I need to recalculate the width of the carousel (so that all the floated thumbnails line up nicely side by side).
For one, I rather not have to do these kinds of calculations in JS, and for two, I found that it's hard to find a cross browser way to ensure that the width will be properly calculated (I end up having to add or remove pixels from the total width depending on the browser).
So my question is, is there any way without JS, to be able to add content to a div, and have the width adjust as needed, the same way a div's height would?
And if not, have you found a more efficient way to handle this scenario than recalculating the width every time?
I'm not new to web dev, and for as long as I've been in this field, to my knowledge this has never been possible. But with the advent of new technologies cropping up, I thought maybe there was an obscure way of achieving this now.
Thanks in advance!
[EDIT] (for clarification, but simplified): If my carousel is 500px wide with overflow hidden. There's a slideable section containing thumbnails, each is 100px wide, floated, they fit 5 across in the carousel. When a user clicks Next, it lazy loads the next set of 5 thumbnails, and appends it to the slider area after the first set of 5. But since this div was 500px wide to accommodate 5 thumbnails, adding another 5, I need to recalculate the width to get the new thumbnails to show up side by side. Ideally I'd like to find a way to have the div autoresize its width to fit horizontal content, the same way it naturally does for vertical content.
I've found that using a containing carousel div with white-space: nowrap and overflow: hidden has worked. I then have display: inline-block for each item in the div.
Using this class for each individual item:
.eachItem {
display: inline-block;
}
Will work (I've done something similar to that).
The problem is that in IE7 it won't work! and you'll have to use JavaScript anyway :(
EDIT: I meant inline-block... and as you may know, IE7 doesn't "like" it.

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