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Link January 30, 2019

Multiple Background Clip

You know how you can have multiple backgrounds?

body {
  background-image: 
    url(image-one.jpg),
    url(image-two.jpg);
}

That's just background-image. You can set their position too, as you might expect. We'll shorthand it:

body {
  background: 
    url(image-one.jpg) no-repeat top right,
    url(image-two.jpg) no-repeat bottom left;
}

I snuck background-repeat in there just for fun. Another one you might not think of setting for multiple different backgrounds, though, is background-clip. In this linked article, Stefan Judis notes that this unlocks some … Read article

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Article June 25, 2018

Drawing Images with CSS Gradients

Author

Jon Kantner

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What I mean by "CSS images" is images that are created using only HTML elements and CSS. They look as if they were SVGs drawn in Adobe Illustrator but they were made right in the browser. Some techniques I’ve seen used are tinkering with border radii, box shadows, and sometimes clip-path. You can find a lot of great examples if you search daily css images" on CodePen. I drew some myself, including this Infinity Gauntlet, but in … Read article

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Article February 14, 2018

CSS Basics: Using Multiple Backgrounds

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Chris Coyier

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With CSS, you can control the background of elements. You can set a background-color to fill it with a solid color, a background-image to fill it with (you guessed it) an image, or even both:

body {
  background-color: red;
  background-image: url(pattern.png);
}

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