CSS Background Position

The background-position property is used to specify the starting position for a background image or gradient

A background-size has the following syntax

.myClass {
background-image: url('path/to/image.jpg');
background-position: 50% 50%;
}

The position is set using an X and Y co-ordinate and be set using any of the units used within CSS.

Unit	Description
value% value%	A percentage for the horizontal offset is relative to (width of background positioning area - width of background image). A percentage for the vertical offset is relative to (height of background positioning area - height of background image) The size of the image is the size given by background-size.
valuepx valuepx	Offsets background image by a length given in pixels relative to the top left of the background positioning area

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In this page (written and validated by A. Gawali) you learned about CSS background position . What's Next? If you are interested in completing CSS tutorial, your next topic will be learning about: CSS background Clip.

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