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Background Position Property

Background Position Property

The background-property sets the position from where the background image should start. In other words, this property will take an x-value and a y-value and will start the image from the point (x, y).

Example:

/* setting background-image of HTML doc */
body {
  background-image: url('https://i.imgur.com/6Z2VStD.png');
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-position: right top;
}

By default, background-position property is set to 0% 0%.

Property values:

background-position: x-value y-value where,

x-value: left | center | right | x% | x px, and

y-value: top | center | bottom | y% | y px.

Other permitted property values are initial and inherit.

initial: Sets this property to its default value.

inherit: Inherits the value from parent element.

Note: When only one value is given to background-property then the other is, by default, set to center.

Other Resources:

MDN Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/background-position