CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 27: background-image Property
By: Estelle Weyl on Friday, May 1, 2009
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The background-image property sets the background image of an element. Now that we've learned how to set background colors, it's time to get even more creative with our web pages. In this section will discuss the background-image property. In the next few sections we'll learn how to enhance the background images that we learn how to include in this section.
The CSS For Absolute Beginners Series:
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 1: Syntax and Type Selectors
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 2: Linking Style Sheets
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 3: Making CC & DT Style Sheets Work for You
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 4: Type, Class & ID Selectors
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 5: Pseudo-Classes and Elements
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 6: Grouping Selectors
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 7: Contextual Selectors
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 8: Specificity
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 9: Properties and Values - Working with Borders
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 10: Properties and Values - Working with Margins & Paddings
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 11: Properties and Values - The Display Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 12: Properties and Values - The font Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 13: Inheritance
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 14: Moving Elements In & Out of the Document Flow
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 15: Absolute Positioning
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 16: Position Relative
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 17: Position Fixed
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 18: Position Static
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 19: Floats & The Overflow Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 20: Floating and Clearing Elements
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 21: Floated Navigation Lists
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 22: Styling with Multi-Classes
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 23: Understanding Hex Value Colours
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 24: Understanding RGB Colors
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 25: Understanding Color Names
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 26: background-color Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 27: background-image Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 28: background-repeat Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 29a: background-position Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 29b: background-position Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 29c: background-position Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 30: The background-attachment Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 31: The background Shorthand Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 32: Generating Content with CSS
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 33a: The CSS content Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 33b: attr(), counter, increment & reset
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