Question

I’m using an svg image as a background. I’m trying to use CSS3’s background-size: 100% 100%; but it doesn’t seem to work, even in browsers which should support it (like Chrome).

If you look at this site you’ll see the #special-post article (to the right/below the food image) with a red banner-looking background. Notice that as you shrink the window down, the height of the background image drops to retain it’s proportions, rather then stretching, as I would like.

EDIT:
I checked this on FireFox and it works correctly… so this appears to be a webkit issue.

EDIT:
I checked this on Safari and it works! So it looks like my problem is specific to Chrome.

(PS: I’m familiar with this alternative solution, using an img tag, but I’d rather not use it.)

Answer 1

Here’s a workaround:

Open your .svg file, find the <svg> tag at the beginning and add the following property inside it:

preserveAspectRatio="none"

Source: http://www.yootheme.com/support/question/6801?order=modified