CSS background-repeat Property
Description
Use the background-repeat property to control how a background-image is tiled in the background of an html element.
the image will appear in the position set using background-position. Also the image may tile in either y or x axis depending on the setting of background-repeat.
background-repeat: repeat-x;
or
background-repeat: repeat-y;
or
background-repeat: no-repeat;
or
background-repeat: inherit;
See also: background-color, background-position, background-attachment, background-image
Examples for css background-repeat
This is the image we will be using as our background for the background-repeat examples:
Example 1:
This example uses the background-repeat property so we only tile the image horizontally. This is a really cool feature as the browser will keep on repeating when you expand a window so the image only needs to be really small - try the give it a go feature and expand and contract the width of the browser and you will see what I mean. You can use to create title bars, menu bars etc. :
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<style>
#test2 { background-image: url(./images/grad.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; }
</style>
<div id="test2">
test <br/>text<br/>test<br/>
</div>Give it a go!
Example 2:
This time we use no-repeat so that the image is not tiled:
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<style>
#test3 { background-image: url(./images/grad.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; }
</style>
<div id="test3">
test <br/>text<br/>test<br/>
</div>Give it a go!
Example 3:
This time we tile vertically by using repeat-y:
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<style>
#test4 { background-image: url(./images/grad.gif); background-repeat: repeat-y; }
</style>
<div id="test4">
test <br/>text<br/>test<br/>
test <br/>text<br/>test<br/>
test <br/>text<br/>test<br/>
test <br/>text<br/>test<br/>
</div>Give it a go!
Values for <background>
| background-image |
url(URL) e.g. url(images/image1.jpg)
none |
Specifies an image to display in the background of the element |
| background-color |
red
#ff0000
rgb(100%,0%,0%)
transparent |
Set the background color of the element. |
| background-repeat |
repeat
repeat-x
repeat-y
no-repeat |
Specifies the repeat style of the background image. repeat-x causes tiling to the left and the right, repeat-y causes tiling up and down |
| background-attachment |
scroll
fixed |
Specifies if background image scrolls or is fixed when the page is scrolled |
background-position
(note two values one for x and one for y |
For y
%|px|top|center|bottom
For x:
%|px|left|center|right
e.g. top left
e.g. 50% right
e.g. 50% 20px |
Specifies the position of the background image. Or if tiling then indicates the origin of the tiling |