How to make an image stretch from the middle with css?

[nudu]

There's repeat-x, repeat-y, etc. But none of them do what I want them to.

I have a gradient image that is like

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But a fixed width image, so I would like to stretch it somehow to the width of the page so it goes

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do you know how ?

Thanks

 

[Hoxxy]

add a width attribute

width="???px"

or for css

style="width:???px;"

or resize image to desired width