CSS background

The CSS background property is a shorthand property for setting the background of an HTML element.

This property enables you to set most background properties with one property.

The background property sets the following properties:

• background-image
• background-position
• background-size
• background-repeat
• background-origin
• background-clip
• background-attachment
• background-color

Syntax

Where

The number of comma-separated items defines the number of background layers.

Possible Values

bg-image

Sets the background-image property.

position

Sets the background-position property.

bg-size

Sets the background-size property.

repeat-style

Sets the background-repeat property.

attachment

Sets the background-attachment property.

box

If one box value is present then it sets both background-origin and background-clip to that value. If two values are present, then the first sets background-origin and the second background-clip.

'background-color'

Sets the background-color property.

In addition, all CSS properties also accept the following CSS-wide keyword values as the sole component of their property value:

initial

Represents the value specified as the property's initial value.

inherit

Represents the computed value of the property on the element's parent.

unset

This value acts as either inherit or initial, depending on whether the property is inherited or not. In other words, it sets all properties to their parent value if they are inheritable or to their initial value if not inheritable.

General Information

Example Code

Official Specifications

• CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 (W3C Candidate Recommendation 9 September 2014)
• CSS Level 2.1 (W3C Recommendation 07 June 2011)
• CSS Level 1 (W3C Recommendation 17 Dec 1996)