Chrome issue with background-attachment fixed and position fixed elements

A late answer but I came around with this and somehow I made a hack for this one.

The idea was to create an inner element which will hold the background-image and will act same as background-attachment:fixed property.

Since this property makes the background image position relative to the window we have to move the inner element within it's container and this way we will get that effect.

var parallax_container = $(".parallax_container");
/*Create the background image holder*/
parallax_container.prepend("<div class='px_bg_holder'></div>");
$(".px_bg_holder").css({
    "background-image" : parallax_container.css("background-image"), /*Get the background image from parent*/
    "background-position" : "center center",
    "background-repeat" : "no-repeat",
    "background-size" : "cover",
    "position" : "absolute",
    "height" : $(window).height(), /*Make the element size same as window*/
    "width" : $(window).width()
});
/*We will remove the background at all*/
parallax_container.css("background","none");
parallax_container.css("overflow","hidden");/*Don't display the inner element out of it's parent*/
$(window).scroll(function(){
    var bg_pos = $(window).scrollTop() - $(".parallax_container").offset().top; /*Calculate the scrollTop of the inner element*/
    $(".px_bg_holder").css({
        "margin-top" : bg_pos+"px"
    });
});
$(window).resize(function(){
    $(".px_bg_holder").css({
        "height" : $(window).height(),
        "width" : $(window).width()
    });
});

Found this solution on: https://fourword.fourkitchens.com/article/fix-scrolling-performance-css-will-change-property

Seems to me to be a clever way to use :before pseudo element. Limit the width for fixed width elements but works great for full width pages. Essentially comes out to look like this:

.background_fill {
  overflow: hidden;
  position: relative;
    color: red;
}
.background_fill:before {
  background-color: white;
  background: url('http://www.lausanneworldpulse.com/pdfs/brierley_map_0507.jpg') no-repeat center center;
  background-size: cover;
  z-index: -3;
  content: " ";
  position: fixed;
  will-change: transform;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
}

<div class="background_fill">
  <div>this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background</div>
  <div>this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background</div>
  <div>this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background</div>
  <div>this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background</div>
  <div>this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background</div>
  <div>this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background</div>
  <div>this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background</div>
  <div>this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background</div>
  <div>this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background</div>
  <div>this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background</div>
  <div>this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background</div>
  <div>this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background</div>
  <div>this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background</div>
  <div>this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background</div>
  <div>this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background</div>
  <div>this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background / this is on a background</div>
</div>

Works great for me as a way of getting around this very annoying bug.

Since a fixed positioned background seems to break for no reason in Chrome, you can potentially try playing around with the clip and position:fixed properties. It's not very well known, but the clip property when set on an absolute positioned element will actually even crop fixed positioned child elements.

There are some drawbacks, however. Most importantly, this trick sadly doesn't work flawlessly on iOS for some reason, whereas the browser has troubles rendering the entire image while the user is scrolling (you kinda get a pop-in effect). It's not something overly major, but perhaps something you should take in regard. Of course, you can still work around this by using for example some clever javascript that falls back to a fixed background. Another iOS workaround is by merely using -webkit-mask-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%,#ffffff 100%) which is basically a webkit-specific alternative for clip: rect(auto,auto,auto,auto) (i.e. crop everything outside the container).

I made a JSFiddle (codepen didn't want to play with me) implementation example for how you can do this. Look specifically at .moment, .moment-image and the new .moment-clipper.

I hope this is of some help!

Update: Clip is now deprecated in favour of clip-path, but is as of writing still supported in all browsers. The same effect can however be achieved with:

-webkit-clip-path: polygon(0 0, 100% 0, 100% 100%, 0 100%);
clip-path: polygon(0 0, 100% 0, 100% 100%, 0 100%);
overflow: hidden;

position: absolute is no longer required on the container. Support for clip-path seems to be relatively limited, with only Chrome and Safari currently supporting it with prefixes. The safest bet is probably to include both clip and clip-path since they don't appear to interfere with each other.

I've updated the fiddle above to also include clip-path.