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Introduction to CSS Part II
Introduction to CSS Part II
Background in CSS 2/2
The background-image
property in CSS is used to specify a background image for an element. The background image is an image that appears behind the content of the element and can be specified using the URL function and a valid URL that points to the image file.
Here is an example of how the background-image
property can be used in a CSS rule to set the background image of the body element:
In this example, the url
function is used to specify the URL of the image file, and the image file is specified in quotes.
You can also specify multiple images as a "fallback" system by providing a comma-separated list of images. The browser will use the first image that it can find:
In this example, if 'my-image.jpg' cannot be found, the browser will use 'my-image-2.jpg' as the background image instead.
You can also specify additional properties such as background-repeat
, background-position
, and background-size
to control how the background image is displayed.
Here is an example that uses all of these properties:
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