ISSUE-20: Does 'backgound-repeat: round' shrink or stretch images?

stretch vs shrink

Does 'backgound-repeat: round' shrink or stretch images?

State:

CLOSED

Product:

CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders

Raised by:

Bert Bos

Opened on:

2008-04-04

Description:

The current draft says that 'background-repeat: round' shrinks images, if needed, so that exactly a whole number of images tiles the background. If a background image is almost as wide as the element, say 99%, that means it gets scaled down by almost 50% to make room for a second image. Should the image instead be scaled up by 1% in such a case?

Counter argument: it's rare that images are scaled down by much, because 'round' is typically used when the author expects more than two tiles; and scaling up usually makes for uglier results than scaling down.

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1. [css3-background] Issues and Proposed Resolutions (from fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net on 2008-05-13)
2. ISSUE-20 (stretch vs shrink): Does 'backgound-repeat: round' shrink or stretch images? [CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2008-04-04)

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