CSS Cookbook

2.5. Creating a Line of Background Images

Problem

You want a series of background images to repeat vertically or horizontally.

Solution

To tile the background image horizontally, or along the x axis, use the following CSS rule (see Figure 2-10):

body {
 background-image: url(bkgd.jpg);
 background-repeat: repeat-x;
}

Figure 2-10. The background image tiled horizontally

To have the background image repeat along the vertical axis, use the repeat-y value for background-repeat.

See Also

Recipe 2.6 for placing a background image at a specific location in a web page.