ptg16476052Image Backgrounds 2219
CSS provides a number of options for controlling how backgrounds are applied. The
background-repeat property is used to specify how background images are tiled.
Options include repeat (the default, which tiles the image horizontally and vertically),
repeat-x (tile horizontally only), repeat-y (tile vertically only), and no-repeat. In
Figure 9.15, I’ve altered the
so that the background image does not repeat:
An element with a background.
An element with a background.
FIGURE 9.14
An element with a
tiled background.
FIGURE 9.15
An element with a
nonrepeating back-
ground.