Example
Set different background properties in one declaration:
body {
background: lightblue url("img_tree.gif") no-repeat fixed center;
}
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Definition and Usage
The background shorthand property sets all the background properties in one declaration.
The properties that can be set, are: background-color, background-image, background-position, background-size, background-repeat, background-origin, background-clip, and background-attachment.
It does not matter if one of the values above are missing, e.g. background:#ff0000 url(smiley.gif); is allowed.
| Default value: | see individual properties |
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| Inherited: | no |
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| Animatable: | yes, see individual properties. Read about animatableTry it |
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| Version: | CSS1 + new properties in CSS3 |
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| JavaScript syntax: | object.style.background="red url(smiley.gif) top left no-repeat"Try it |
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Browser Support
The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the property.
| Property | | | | | |
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| background | 1.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 3.5 |
Note: Internet Explorer 8 and earlier versions do not support multiple background images on one element.
Note: See individual browser support for each value below.
CSS Syntax
background: bg-color bg-image position/bg-size bg-repeat bg-origin bg-clip bg-attachment initial|inherit;
Note: If one of the properties in the shorthand declaration is the bg-size property, you must use a / (slash) to separate it from the bg-position property, e.g. background:url(smiley.gif) 10px 20px/50px 50px; will result in a background image, positioned 10 pixels from the left, 20 pixels from the top, and the size of the image will be 50 pixels wide and 50 pixels high.
Note: If using multiple background-image sources but also want a background-color, the background-color parameter needs to be last in the list.
Property Values
Related Pages
CSS tutorial: CSS Background, CSS Backgrounds (advanced)
HTML DOM reference: background property