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CSS: The Missing Manual
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CSS: The Missing Manual

by David Sawyer McFarland
August 2006
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
496 pages
17h 36m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Using Background Property Shorthand

As you can see from the examples above, to really take control of background images you need to harness the power of several different background properties. But typing out background-image, background-attachment, and so on again and again can really take its toll on your hands. But there's an easier way—the background shorthand property.

You can actually bundle all the background properties (including the background-color property you learned about last chapter) into a single line of streamlined CSS. Simply type background followed by the values for background-color, background-image, background-attachment, and background-position. The following style sets the background to white, and adds a non-repeating fixed background image smack dab in the middle of the page:

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