I've been doing some searching on here and Google and I can't seem to find an answer that quite fits what I'm trying to do. I have a single div with some text in it that does a fade effect by transitioning to a different background image on mouse hover. What I want to do is to tile/repeat that same div dynamically so it fills the entire body (or parent div). Kind of like using background-repeat:repeat but with a div instead of a background image. I like to see what kind of cool visual effects I can achieve with elements across the entire page fading in and out as the mouse moves over them.
Of course I could just copy and paste the same div in the code a bunch of times but there must be a better solution. I'm thinking javascript is needed, but the only things I've been able to find about cloning divs look to be a bit over my head and I'm wondering if there is a more simple solution.
The CSS and HTML that I'm using as an example is from menu links on a site I'm working on. It may not be the best example but I'm a bit new to CSS. Basically I want to tile the below div across an entire page.
Here is the css:
#fadediv {
background-image:url(images/buttonback.png);
transition: background-image 0.5s linear;
-moz-transition: background-image 0.5s linear;
-webkit-transition: background-image 0.5s linear;
}
#fadediv:hover {
background-image:url(images/buttonback2.jpg);
}
.fadedivtext {
display:block;
width:320px;
height:138px;
float:left;
font-size:30px;
color:#FFF;
text-align:center;
line-height:138px;
}
And the HTML snippet:
<div id="fadediv" class="fadedivtext">about me</div>
EDIT: Looks like there's a PHP example here that could work, in addition to the javascript example given below.