CSS Background

CSS background is a property in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that is used to set the background color or image of an HTML element. The background property is a shorthand property that combines several individual background properties into one. The syntax for the background property is as follows:

background: color image position / size repeat attachment origin clip;

background: color image position / size repeat attachment origin clip;

Here is a brief explanation of each value:

color: sets the background color of the element
image: sets the background image of the element
position: sets the position of the background image within the element
size: sets the size of the background image
repeat: sets whether the background image should repeat or not
attachment: sets whether the background image should be fixed or scroll with the content
origin: sets the origin of the background image (where it should start)
clip: sets the clipping behavior of the background image

Some examples of using the background property in CSS are:

body {
  background: #f2f2f2;
}

div {
  background: url('image.jpg') no-repeat center center/cover fixed;
}

In the first example, the background color of the body element is set to a light gray. In the second example, the background image of a div element is set to an image file named “image.jpg”, centered within the div, not repeating, covering the entire element, fixed in place, and clipped to the edges of the div.