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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW - Safari and Chrome for iOS fail to render jpg background images with background-size: cover;"
   href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155473">155473</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Safari and Chrome for iOS fail to render jpg background images with background-size: cover;
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>WebKit
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>Other
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>Other
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>iOS 9.2
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>Major
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P2
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>CSS
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>webkit-unassigned&#64;lists.webkit.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>gannoncurran&#64;gmail.com
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        <pre>Following FAILS to render any background image at all on both Safari (v. 601.1) and Chrome (v. 49.0.2623.73) in iOS, for both iPhone and iPad

&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta charset=&quot;UTF-8&quot;&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;Test&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;style&gt;
    .container {
      width: 100px;
      height: 100px;
      background-image: url('./images/test_bg_01.jpg');
      background-size: cover;
    }
  &lt;/style&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
  &lt;div class=&quot;container&quot;&gt;
    &lt;p&gt;things&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;

But this works (image file type changed to .png):

&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta charset=&quot;UTF-8&quot;&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;Test&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;style&gt;
    .container {
      width: 100px;
      height: 100px;
      background-image: url('./images/test_bg_01.png');
      background-size: cover;
    }
  &lt;/style&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
  &lt;div class=&quot;container&quot;&gt;
    &lt;p&gt;things&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;</pre>
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