Why can't I use background image and color together?
CssCss Problem Overview
What I am trying to do is to show both background-color
and background-image
, so that half of my div
will cover the right shadow background image, and the other left part will cover the background color.
But when I use background-image
, the color disappears.
Css Solutions
Solution 1 - Css
It's perfectly possible to use both a color and an image as background for an element.
You set the background-color
and background-image
styles. If the image is smaller than the element, you need to use the background-position
style to place it to the right, and to keep it from repeating and covering the entire background you use the background-repeat
style:
background-color: green;
background-image: url(images/shadow.gif);
background-position: right;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
Or using the composite style background
:
background: green url(images/shadow.gif) right no-repeat;
If you use the composite style background
to set both separately, only the last one will be used, that's one possible reason why your color is not visible:
background: green; /* will be ignored */
background: url(images/shadow.gif) right no-repeat;
There is no way to specifically limit the background image to cover only part of the element, so you have to make sure that the image is smaller than the element, or that it has any transparent areas, for the background color to be visible.
Solution 2 - Css
To tint an image, you can use CSS3 background
to stack images and a linear-gradient
. In the example below, I use a linear-gradient
with no actual gradient. The browser treats gradients as images (I think it actually generates a bitmap and overlays it) and thus, is actually stacking multiple images.
background: linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(2,173,231,0.5), rgba(2,173,231,0.5)), url(images/mba-grid-5px-bg.png) repeat;
Will yield a graph-paper with light blue tint, if you had the png. Note that the stacking order might work in reverse to your mental model, with the first item being on top.
Excellent documentation by Mozilla, here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Using_multiple_backgrounds
Tool for building the gradients:
http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/
Note - doesn't work in IE11! I'll post an update when I find out why, since its supposed to.
Solution 3 - Css
use
background:red url(../images/samle.jpg) no-repeat left top;
Solution 4 - Css
And to add to this answer, make sure the image itself has a transparent background.
Solution 5 - Css
Actually there is a way you can use a background color with a background image. In this case, the background part will be filled with that specified color instead of a white/transparent one.
In order to achieve that, you need to set the background
property like this:
.bg-image-with-color {
background: url("example.png") no-repeat, #ff0000;
}
Note the comma and the color code after no-repeat
; this sets the background color you wish.
I discovered this in this YouTube video, however I'm not affiliated with that channel or video in any means.
Solution 6 - Css
Here's an example of using background-image
and background-color
together:
.box {
background-image: repeating-linear-gradient( -45deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, .2), rgba(255, 255, 255, .2) 15px, transparent 15px, transparent 30px);
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
margin: 10px 0 0 10px;
display: inline-block;
}
<div class="box" style="background-color:orange"></div>
<div class="box" style="background-color:green"></div>
<div class="box" style="background-color:blue"></div>
Solution 7 - Css
Make half of the image transparent so the background colour is seen through it.
Else simply add another div taking up 50% up the container div and float it either left or right. Then apply either the image or the colour to it.
Solution 8 - Css
Gecko has a weird bug where setting the background-color
for the html
selector will cover up the background-image
of the body element even though the body
element in effect has a greater z-index and you should be able to see the body's background-image
along with the html
background-color
based purely on simple logic.
Gecko Bug
Avoid the following...
html {background-color: #fff;}
body {background-image: url(example.png);}
Work Around
body {background-color: #fff; background-image: url(example.png);}
Solution 9 - Css
Hello everyone I tried another way to combine background-image and background-color together:
HTML
<article><canvas id="color"></canvas></article>
CSS
article {
height: 490px;
background: url("Your IMAGE") no-repeat center cover;
opacity:1;
}
canvas{
width: 100%;
height: 490px;
opacity: 0.9;
}
JAVASCRIPT
window.onload = init();
var canvas, ctx;
function init(){
canvas = document.getElementeById('color');
ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
ctx.save();
ctx.fillstyle = '#00833d';
ctx.fillRect(0,0,490,490);ctx.restore();
}
Please let me know if it worked for you Thanks
Solution 10 - Css
background:url(directoryName/imageName.extention) bottom left no-repeat;
background-color: red;