CSS Fundamentals: Backgrounds

Timothy Robards
ITNEXT
Published in
6 min readApr 24, 2020

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In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to change the backgrounds of CSS elements.

The background property allows you to control the background of any element. It’s a shorthand property, so we can write multiple properties in one code block. For example:

body {
background:
fixed /* attachment *
blue; /* color */
content-box

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