Help with Image as a Background for Portfolio Website

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I’m needing help with putting an image as a background on my portfolio website. I’ve tried many different things but nothing seems to help. The last thing I tried made the entire screen gray and took out the task bar. Here’s the link for my codepen page https://codepen.io/donnacamos88/pen/wjBvGo. Could anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong and how to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Here is the thing you are missing. Background image is set inside body element in css. I found you didnt have a body elemet. Second thing which i notices in your code was the image url, it was of dropbox. use absolute url of image and not of a website. there are many website which provide images with ,jpg extension but are not the absolute url. Anyway here is the corrected css code.


body{
 background-image:url(https://fh-sites.imgix.net/sites/914/2017/12/14232950/Ocean-Road-Tour-image-3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1000&h=1000&fit=max);

background-position: center center;

background-repeat: no-repeat; 

background-attachment: fixed;

background-size: cover;

}
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Thanks! I used the code pen and I was able to make it work. But do I need to add content before a scrollbar appears? Also how do I make the navbar run the length of the screen? I’ll try a few more things to fix it but thanks again.

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Wow! Thanks! It worked beautifully. I appreciate all your help.