css 101

By Scot Hacker   ·   Updated Sep 7, 2011   ·   Print Print

Backgrounds

You can set the background of any element with your choice of either a solid color or a tiled (repeating) image.

Usage example:

Which looks like this:

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If you want to use a tiled image as a background, just specify its relative or absolute URL:

Which looks like this:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in re Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

By default, a background image will tile repeatedly in all directions, to fill up the space it's assigned to. Alternatively, you can tell your background image to only repeat along the x or y axis. In the next example, we use both a background color and a background image. We tell the background image to only repeat vertically. To prevent the text from sitting on top of the tiled image, we add 120px of left padding (covered in the next section).

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