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This is my CSS
.test {
background-image:url('images/smiley.gif');
background-repeat:repeat;
}
This is my HTML:
<div class="test" id="xyz">some code which should come background to image</div>
The code that I have written sets a background image.
But I want to put an image on top of the text, instead of behind it, so that it covers the text. (I also want it to automatically repeat to fill the element, which could be any size.)
How can I do that?
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You can make your background image repeat across the page (or any other HTML element) by using the CSS background-repeat property. You can also use the background property to set all your background related properties at once. You can make your background image repeat horizontally, vertically, or both.
default background-repeat: repeat; The background image will repeat itself both horizontally and vertically. background-repeat: repeat-x; The background image will only repeat itself horizontally.
The background-repeat CSS property sets how background images are repeated. A background image can be repeated along the horizontal and vertical axes, or not repeated at all.
This should do the trick. the :before selector creates a fake div with the given content (here a space, because without the content attribute, and I think with an empty string content, the fake div isn't created), and which can be styled. So the fake div is created, and styled with a background-image, a given height and width, and a z-index of 1, while the real div has a z-index of zero and appears below.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test page</title>
<style>
.test:before {
content: " ";
position: absolute;
width: 100px; height: 100px;
background-image:url('http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Smiley_transparent.png');
background-repeat:repeat;
z-index: 1;
}
.test {
z-index: 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="test" id="xyz">some code which should come background to image</div>
</body>
</html>
Combining this with Paul D. Waite's answer avoids having an explicit span in the code.
I thought the :before had to be applied to .test :first-child:before, so it would be a child of the xyz div, instead of being a sibling, but it seems it is not necessary (though it escapes me why).
You can test the result live on jsfiddle.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test page</title>
<style>
.test {
position: relative;
}
.test:before {
content: " ";
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
height: auto;
left: 0;
right: 0;
width: auto;
background-image:url('http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Smiley_transparent.png');
background-repeat:repeat;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
Some text before.
<div class="test" id="xyz">some code which should come background to image</div>
Some text after.
</body>
</html>
Interesting task. I think this should do it, if you’re willing to put in an extra HTML element. (Alternatively, use .test:before instead of .test .foregroundImage, like in Georges’ answer).
<div class="test" id="xyz"><span class="foregroundImage"></span>some code which should come background to image</div>
.test {
position: relative;
}
.test .foregroundImage {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
height: auto;
left: 0;
right: 0;
width: auto;
background-image:url('images/smiley.gif');
background-repeat:repeat;
}
See http://jsfiddle.net/RUJYf/ for a working example.
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