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  • 1. The background-color Property
  • 2. The background-image Property
  • 3. The background-repeat Property
  • 4. The background-position Property
  • 5. A Little More on background-position
  • 6. The background-attachment Property
  • 7. The background Property
  • 8. Summary of “Backgrounds: An Introduction. Part 1”
  • 9. Challenge: Cat Comics
  • 10. JPEG format
  • 11. The PNG-8 Format
  • 12. PNG-24 format
  • 13. The GIF Format
  • 14. Multiple backgrounds
  • 15. Effects with a Repeating Background
  • 16. Sprites
  • 17. Summary of “Backgrounds: An Introduction. Part 2”
  • 18. Challenge: CAT Academy
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The background-image Property

The background image can be assigned using the CSS property background-image. This can be done as follows:

selector {
  background-image: url("image-address");
}

The image address must be enclosed inside url("..."). The addresses for the background images work in the same way as addresses for regular images, which you learned how to specify in the section about links and images.

An element can be assigned both a background color and a background image. In this case, the image will be displayed over the background color.

In this section, we will use some excellent icons created by Denis Sazhin to create experimental images.

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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>The background-image Property</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"> </head> <body> <div class="block block1"></div> <div class="block block2"></div> <div class="block block3"></div> <div class="block block4"></div> </body> </html>
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body { padding: 10px; text-align: center; } .block { display: inline-block; width: 192px; height: 192px; margin: 5px; border-radius: 5px; box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #999999; } .block1 { background-color: #2ecc71; } .block2 { background-color: #3498db; } .block3 { background-color: #e74c3c; } .block4 { background-color: #e67e22; }

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    Add background images to the blocks:

    1. cat_box.png — To the first block,
    2. cat_fish.png — To the second block,
    3. cat_drunk.png — To the third block,
    4. cat_tied.png — To the fourth block.

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