Background-size 100% not working in IE8 and IE7

Question

I have an empty div which contain a background image that is bigger than the size of the container. I fix this one by background-image property with the value (100% 100%). That's fine until you open the example in IE8 and IE7. Any solutions for that, even a javascript script or jquery plugin?

i.e: http://jsbin.com/imirer/1/edit

i.e: http://jsfiddle.net/bPTzE/

HTML:

<div class="container">
    <div class="background"></div>
</div>

CSS:

.container {
    /* an example width for responsive perpose */
    width: 500px;
}

.background {
    height: 27px;
    background: url("http://s18.postimage.org/jhbol7zu1/image.png") no-repeat scroll 100% 100% transparent;

    /* not working in IE8 and IE7 */
    background-size: 100% 100%;
}

Answer 1

since background-size is CSS3 specific which is not supported to IE you have to do something like this for it to work in IE

set your html and body to

html {overflow-y:hidden}
body {overflow-y:auto}

wrap the image you want fullscreened with a div #page-background

#page-background {position:absolute; z-index:-1}

then put this in your html file

<div id="page-background">
  <img src="/path/to/your/image" width="100%" height="100%">
</div>

** you will have to use some sort of reset to remove the margins and paddings, something like this

html, body {height:100%; margin:0; padding:0;}

Answer 2

background-size not supported by ie7 and ie8.

the alternative way you can use put 'tag' in div tag and add width 100% to it. It is full scalable.

try this code:

<div class="container">
    <img src="http://s18.postimage.org/jhbol7zu1/image.png" width="100%" />
</div>

or

html:

<div class="container">
    <img src="http://s18.postimage.org/jhbol7zu1/image.png" />
</div>

css:

.container img {
     width:100%
 }