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BACKGROUND IMAGES
Adding decorative elements to make our websites more visually appealing used to be surprisingly resource- and time-intensive. Even seemingly simple graphical effects, such as two background images on the same element, required a lot of unnecessary markup, and this in turn made pages slower to render and harder to maintain.
CSS3 introduces a number of new and extended properties that are aimed at decorating elements much more simply, and the browser makers have been quick to implement them and to add a number of their own implementations as well. Over the next few chapters, we’ll take a look at the new range of features that ...
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