How Do I Add a Background Image to CSS Squarespace?

Adding a background image to your CSS Squarespace is a great way to add some flair to your website. background-image is a CSS property that allows you to specify an image to use as the background for an element. The image is placed on top of the background-color, and if specified, background-repeat and background-position properties.

The simplest way to add a background image is to specify the URL of the image you want to use as the value of the background-image property:

background-image: url(https://example.com/image.jpg);

You can also use other values for the background-image property, such as ‘none’ or ‘inherit’.

If you want to add a background image to a specific element on your page, you can use the CSS selector for that element. For example, if you want to add a background image to all

tags on your page, you would use the following CSS:

p {
background-image: url(https://example.jpg);
}

You can also add a background image to an element by using the HTML style attribute. The style attribute can be added to any HTML element, and it allows you to specify CSS rules inline. For example, if you want to add a background image to a <div> element with the id of ‘container’, you would use the following HTML:

<div id="container" style="background-image: url(https://example.jpg);"></div>

Adding a Background Image with Multiple Images

If you want to add multiple images as backgrounds, you can do so by separating the values with a comma:

div {
background-image: url(https://example.com/first.jpg), url(https://example.com/second.jpg);
}

Adding a Background Image with Gradients

You can also add gradients as your background images by using the linear-gradient() function:

div {
background-image: linear-gradient(to right, red, orange);
}

Adding a Background Image with Repeating Patterns

You can make your background image repeat by using the repeat keyword:

div {
background-image: url(https://example.com/pattern.png) repeat;
}

You can also control how it repeats vertically, horizontally, or both directions by using the repeat-x, repeat-y, or repeat keywords respectively:

div {
background-image: url(https://example.png) repeat; /* repeats in both directions */
}

div {
background-image: url(https://example.png) repeat-y; /* repeats only vertically */ }

Adding a Background Image with Size Control

You might notice that when adding a large image as yourbackground, it sometimes looks blurry or doesn’t coverthe entire element like you want it too—this is where size control comes in handy! By default,background images will tile (repeat) to fill up theircontaining element; however, you can change how theydisplay using either the contain or cover keywords inconjunction with the size property:

div { /* contains entire image within element */ background-size: contain; }

div { /* scales image so that it fills entire element */ background-size: cover; }