CSS & CSS3: 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development

Setting Backgrounds

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CSS2 provides a lot of support for backgrounds, but there were still areas connected with the CSS box model that needed improvement, and which have now been addressed in CSS3, with two new properties: background-clip and background-origin.

Between them you can specify where a background should start within an element, and also how to clip the background so that it doesn’t appear in parts of the box model where you don’t want it ...