Controlling background-images | CSS Tutorial

A deep dive into CSS background-image, including a look at background-size, background-repeat, and a deep dive into background-position.
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/// Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:07 - background-image basics
02:08 - background-repeat and size
03:49 - background-position with units
05:11 - background-position with keywords
05:46 - keywords with offsets
07:27 - controlling multiple background images
09:14 - background-size: cover
16:14 - outro
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Something cool I did with background images recently uses a bunch of the things you talked about here. I had a design where there were borders on elements that didn't go the entire width of the container. So instead of using pseudo-elements, or border image I used linear-gradient as a background, and used background-size to make it not go the full width of the box. Something like: background-image: linear-gradient(black, black); background-position: bottom left; background-size: 60% 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat; Now no matter how big the box is, it'll have what looks like a border going partway through the element. You can also combine it with multiple background images, so there's one partial border on the left, and one on the bottom.

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Nice explanations as always, Kevin. As a suggestion, although I've been working with css for a few years, in one project I had to finish for a client not so long ago, they were using border-image for making quite ellaborated frames for floating content, just using one image, taking part of that image to repeat horizontally and vertically, and also using some parts of the image as decoration. I had never used or seen something like that, but it was really useful for having just one image for variable sized floating info messages. Maybe you could do a video about it. Thanks!

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