Background images with HTML & CSS

In this video, I look at how to set a background image, problems people run into with them and how to fix them, and finish things off with a bonus tip on readability.
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✅ How to control your background-images: • Controlling background...
⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:47 - Don't have the images in your HTML
01:29 - Use an external CSS file
03:45 - Linking a background image in an external CSS file
05:58 - Fallback background-color
06:45 - Don't use heights
08:21 - When the image doesn't show up
10:43 - background-repeat
12:26 - When an image is too big
14:36 - Making an image fit
16:59 - BONUS - making the text readable
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[@BenjaminAster]

Don't forget your , otherwise the browser doesn't load the image before the entire CSS file is loaded and parsed. This can be very slow; especially at 3G connections.

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Your timing could not be better! I literately just came to your channel to find this exact topic. Keep up the good work champion.

[@albertoa.r.5995]

I love when you go back to basics. Somehow it helps also to grasp advanced concepts that rely on this. Thanks!

[@lizflaggswope4747]

Kevin, I'm just learning CSS, and your videos are SO encouraging and refreshing! Thank you for making it all so approachable!

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[@johannarodriguez3573]

you blew my mind with background-blend-mode, none of all the courses I've done mentioned it. How cool I found your video, thanks!!!

[@bukkorossu]

The bonus tip of that "background-blend-mode" property was pretty cool!

[@justpeachyrl]

Thank you so much, Kevin. I really really appreciate the care, attention to detail, and focus on best practices that you put into each of your videos.

[@nataliadi9]

Kevin, I am so happy I came across with your channel. You do make people fall in love with css. It really makes me stay curious. Thank you!

[@MartynKoi]

I have used a container for the text with a dark semi transparent background. This allows the image to show through and also a darker patch for the lighter text to be displayed. It has the advantage of framing the text which I think is a great eye catching feature if done right. Just my little tip :) Great video again, well done.

[@IamPetrus]

Man, I have been over two hours of crazy frustration trying to figure out what was going on (swearing for granted) with my background - image, and in ten minutes of your video I could find the solution. Its the Kevin thing making it easy to us. Again!...

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Love your content, please keep it up! The way you explain things with such a calm and practicity from the most basic aspect is very conforting and encouraging for everyone, even if you're only looking for a quick fix or tip. ❣

[@Fahimurr]

Brilliant video, thank you Kevin for all your hardwork. Your videos are really helpful for someone like me who is getting into web dev.

[@swallowedinthesea11]

I knew most of these except the blending part. It will be very helpful! Thank you!

[@janman7419]

Very helpful, and nicely explained! I am just getting into CSS, and just by pausing and peeking at your code I learned other additional things I did not know about. Maybe I should start to watch from the beginning of your series :D. Thank you very much

[@gundi0012]

I watched the entire video for the blend mode tag thank you man i love your content

[@abdulrhman2514]

I hated working with CSS now I love it so much thanks to you Thank you Kevin!

[@fabianpetersen2452]

Thanks Kevin, i was struggling with this recently and you made it super easy to understand 👍. Much love from South Africa

[@frosty8104]

Nice tip about the blend mode.. I had no idea before that you could do that with css, though I knew about it from using it in Photoshop & Illustrator

[@andreyovedenie]

Thank you! I watch some clips about this but your clip was full with all the information and that really help me! Again Thank you!

[@SeviersKain]

damn, that background-blend-mode is really working like a charm, thx Kevin !!!

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Great video Kevin! This is exactly what i was looking for. Thank you!

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It's so satisfying to find teacher with so much passion to teach. It's the best education anyone can get.

[@KevinPowell]

Thanks so much!

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You are AMAZING! Great content and super clear. I think I am loving CSS! Thank you!

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Thank you so much for the last chapter of the video! I was searching for that since some hours ahaha

[@Control4Daze]

Greatly appreciate your explanation and assistance! Thank you!

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Thank you! I actually yelled out loud when you did the dot dot in the url because that's what I'd been missing all along.

[@DanteMishima]

Thank you Kevin. I was just saying this to someone who is stuck in adding width and height, telling them to use padding

[@kodeshare6273]

Thank you Kevin, you are always my go to guy for css.

[@abrahamomorogieva8533]

the image being outside the folder was my problem. thanks so much, you earned a new subscriber

[@aleksandrasocha9508]

This worked incredibly well! I can finally play it thanks

[@patrickmcnelis1520]

Lol...I just had the path issue with your section styling video. Most important to double check those paths. And the inspect tip works very well. Thanks Kevin!

[@raquelcampos2096]

Thanks to teach responsiveness at the same time. I was adding a heigh every time I added a background picture , now I know better.

[@annanagalina3567]

Thank you a lot! It helped me find the problem with my background image. Very detailed and clear explication.

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Thank you so much for all your videos.I wish you good health and hope you are happy.

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thank you so much for your detailed videos. I appreciate you!!

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First video that I watched, loved it, subscribed and reccomended to my friends.

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Background-blend-mode was pretty helpful!!

[@aleksandraurban7867]

Thank you for this video! You explained so well and saved my life :D

[@Webtricker]

The background image tutorial with HTML & CSS was very nice and simple. It was good. Thanks for shearing.

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Hello Mr. Powell. Thank you so much for your videos. They have helped me a lot.

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Sir, you just earned a new subscriber. This video was so helpful!!! Thank you.

[@jonks5913]

thank you Kevin for this video this was driving me nuts looking for a solution

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Kevin is legit my CSS guardian angel. Thank you kev ❤️

[@Locklesh]

Great video. Exactly what I needed. Thankyou.

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Thank you so much💙. Your video solved my biggest problem.

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Thank you so much!! It was very helpful!!!👍🏼🙏🏻

[@alexandrosdimiropoulos4768]

You are doing great videos, with great explanations that are extremely useful for real life projects. Amazing work. My only question regarding this video is this: for how big monitors you must choose an image for? If one person has ultrawide 4k screen, should we choose a background image that can stretch and fit to those screens also or we should use media queries with different images for bigger monitors or maybe we should stop and show only a background color after certain dimensions?

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Thank you very much , now I will understand the functionality

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The video I didnt know I was looking for ^

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wow. you just solve me problem now. thank you. I like your presentation style.

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Sir, you just have earned a lifelong subscriber

[@mofe620]

Kevin...all your recent videos are solving my problems 🥺 I need to check the past ones too

[@zedricksalupito]

Clear like Data I love this channel

[@MikeHerzog_de]

Another nice tool to have in your box for legibility is `text-shadow`. In the white-text example from the video, I'd go with some dark color taken from the background image.

[@JackFate76]

This gives me so many memories.

[@abdulhadi_53]

what I was looking for is to make it sticky background , So i found out by using background-attachment:fixed; and it worked very nice , and for a tip u can make shade on your background using background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.921), rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.914) ), url(" ./ your url for the bg "); And thank you kevin for the great work you are doing for make the web looking more aesthitic

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You are awesome sir 👏 through ur videos only I'm able to strong my front-end

[@estudiolo]

This is great, thank you!

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Helped me so much thank you, thumbs up

[@dr__ey]

thank you so much for this Kevin !!!!

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Hi Kevin, First of all, I am not a comment-person at all. I detest commenting. But I just felt that, in this case, I had to make an exception. At first, I didn't even like your videos, but then I watched this one and a few others which convinced me that you're bloody good (if I may say so). I've just finished the first module of my Front-end development course. I've made all the mistakes that a beginner developer can make, and by the way that you mentioned not to do. I was struggling to put my end assignment together. And I was also binge-watching tutorials on KZbin. However, this was one of the first videos that followed through by actually doing it. So much so that in my end-assignment I almost always used background-blend-mode for my hero images to make the text in the image more readable.

[@FFAs]

Suggestion that isn't specific to CSS, more general web development for beginners: I noticed KZbin is missing a single video or clear series of videos covering the steps/options for setting up a simple contact form for a website from start to finish on both front-end and back-end. Covering basic options like free, cheap, and premium tools for the backend could be an easy extra video topic that would be helpful to beginners.

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You drop this...👑 KING

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there are a lot of talented artists out here, but I have trouble understanding some of them. . Glad-I-found-you {

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[@ZaeemKhaliqAwan]

There is a multiple background images stacking order thing, by which you can use multiple backgrounds. It is useful for applying for example linear gradient (to control opacity of the background image).

[@KevinPowell]

Yeah, that can be really useful :)

[@gio_adventurelm1578]

OMG thanks you so muchh! I tried so many time to put a background-image 🤣

[@sillyways4610]

good video but i've got one point: my teacher said its not a good idea to place an image via css in the website because for SEO reasons. The search engine won't recognize that there's a picture hence for better SEO it's more advisable to put pictures in or tags since it will be seen as a picture

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Good suggestions, thanks.

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very helpful much appreciated .

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Great video! Thanks a lot!

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Awesome video and excellent teaching

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Thanks a lot Kevin ♥️.

[@plexor-dev]

Cool, i see that trick background-blend-mode, a few months ago on Twitter.

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You explain verry well friend!

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My god... saved my day practicing in VS code

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[@m12652]

Great video as usual… Maybe you did one already but how about a video where you combine a background gradient that implies perspective with a foreground drop shadow that scales in proportion to the implied perspective.

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Thank you Kevin, for helping me build a website for another man also named Kevin

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this was soooooo useful to me

[@aram5642]

King Kevin, in an unlikely case you run out of ideas for a video, I would be curious to see how you approach overflow containers with those nice shadowed transparency masks on the edges when there is overflown content scrolled past the edge. I don't think there is a css-only solution to that, but I know css in your hands can surprise me a lot. Thank you!

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Look easy , but still many years of brainstorming how do this, anyway - little closer to understand this now... ;) .css, .js ... etc. ... THX for sharing this knowledge...

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