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How Do You Add a Background Image in CSS Squarespace?

Last updated on December 14, 2022 @ 3:17 am

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language. A style sheet is a collection of rules that tells a web browser how to display a document written in HTML or XML.

CSS is used to style all HTML tags, including the document’s body, headings, paragraphs, and other pieces of text. CSS can also be used to style the display of table elements, grid elements, and images.

Adding a background image in CSS is a two-step process. First, you need to create a CSS rule that sets the background image for an element. Then, you need to add the rule to your HTML document.

To create a CSS rule that sets the background image for an element:

1. Use the element selector to Target the element you want to style.
2. Use the background-image property to specify the URL of the image you want to use as the background image.
3. Use quotes around the URL of the image. This is required if the URL contains characters such as spaces or #.
4. Use the background-repeat property to specify whether and how the image should be tiled.
5. Use the background-position property to specify where the background image should be positioned within the element.
6. Use a semicolon ( ; ) to separate different properties in your CSS rule.
7. Add your CSS rule to your HTML document between the <style> tags or in an external CSS file.

Here’s an example CSS rule that sets the background image for all <body> elements:

body {
background-image: url("https://example.com/images/bg-image.jpg");
background-repeat: repeat;
background-position: top left;
}

Adding this CSS rule to your HTML document will cause all <body> elements on your web page to have a repeating background image positioned in the top left corner of each element.

To add text styling in HTML, you can use three different tags: <p>, <b> and <u>. The <p> tag is used for paragraph text, while <b> is used for bolding text and <u> is used for underlining text.

For example, if you wanted to have two paragraphs on your web page with one being bold and one being underlined, your HTML code would look like this:
<p>This is my first paragraph. </p>
<b><p>This is my second paragraph. </p></b>
<u><p>This is my third paragraph. </p></u>

In order to make sure that your text appears correctly on your web page, make sure that you close each tag that you open.

PRO TIP: When adding a background image in CSS Squarespace, be sure to add the following:

background-image: url(IMAGE URL);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;

Otherwise, your background image will not appear correctly on your website.

Conclusion:
In conclusion, adding a background image in CSS is a two step process. First, you need to create a CSS rule that sets the background image for an element using the background-image property specifying the URL for the image using quotes around it if necessary along with setting other properties such as background-repeat and background-position if desired then adding the CSS rule either between the <style> tags in the HTML document or in an external stylesheet.

To style text in HTML using different tags such as <p>, <b> and <u>, simply use those tags around the text you want affected by those tags making sure to close each tag afterwards.

Kathy McFarland

Kathy McFarland

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