Setting Background Image using CSS

CSS Web Development Front End Technology

The CSS background-image property is used to set an image as a background for the selected element.

Syntax

The syntax of CSS background-image property is as follows −

Selector {
   background-image: /*value*/
}

The following examples illustrate CSS background-image property −

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
#demo {
   margin: 24px;
   box-shadow: 0 0 5px black;
   padding: 20px;
   background-image: url("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/servlets/images/servlets.jpg");
   background-origin: content-box;
   background-repeat: no-repeat;
   background-size: cover;
   text-shadow: 0 1px white;
   font-size: 1.4em;
}
p {
   box-shadow: 0 0 5px grey;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
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<div id="demo">
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</div>
</body>
</html>

Output

This gives the following output −

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
div {
   height: 150px;
   width: 150px;
   background-image: url("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/spring/images/spring-mini-logo.jpg");
   border: 2px solid brown;
}
div > div {
   height: 80px;
   width: 80px;
   margin-right: 50px;
   background-image: url("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/images/hibernate.png");
}
h1 {
   background-image: url("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/hibernate/images/hibernate-patterns.jpg");
   background-repeat: no-repeat;
   color: black;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Demo</h1>
<div>
<div></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>