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title: CSS Images
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## CSS Images
This helps in adding an image to a website. CSS can handle images like JPG, PNG or other raster format. There are two types images: plain images which are sometimes referenced with a url, and dynamically generated images which are generated by some element.
#### Code Sample
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* **src:** It consists the value of the path to the required image.
* **alt:** This is a text description of the image and is useful if the image cannot be viewed by a visitor. It also allows the image on your page to rank in image search results for search engines such as Google.
* **width:** This specifies a width for the image(can be percent or px or auto).
* **height:** This specifies a height for the image(can be percent or px or auto).
#### CSS Defaults
The `img` element will be rendered by default in most browsers to be displayed as an inline-block display type unless specified otherwise.
```
img {
display: inline-block;
}
```
#### More Information:
It is advised to change any one parameter, either height or width, to get a proportionate image. Changing both dimensions results in forced scaling and is not advisable.
##### Properties
image-orientation
image-rendering
object-fit
object-position
##### Functions
linear-gradient()
radial-gradient()
repeating-linear-gradient()
repeating-radial-gradient()
element()
##### Datatypes
<image>
<uri>
##### Image Sprites
An image sprite is a collection of images put into a single image.
A web page with many images can take a long time to load and generates multiple server requests.
Using image sprites will reduce the number of server requests and save bandwidth.
```
#home {
width: 46px;
height: 44px;
background: url(img_navsprites.gif) 0 0;
}
```
#### More Info:
- [CSS Images, developer mozilla](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/image)