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Backgrounds and Borders

 

🎨 Backgrounds and Borders

In CSS, backgrounds and borders are used to visually style elements and give your web pages structure and aesthetics.

🔲 Background Properties

CSS allows you to control the background of an element using several properties:

selector {
  background-color: #f0f0f0; /* Sets background color */
  background-image: url('image.jpg'); /* Sets background image */
  background-repeat: no-repeat; /* Prevents image from repeating */
  background-position: center center; /* Positions background */
  background-size: cover; /* Scales image to cover element */
  background-attachment: fixed; /* Fixes background when scrolling */
}

Shorthand:

background: #f0f0f0 url('image.jpg') no-repeat center center / cover fixed;

🧱 Border Properties

CSS borders add lines around elements.

selector {
  border-width: 2px;        /* Thickness */
  border-style: solid;      /* solid, dashed, dotted, double, none */
  border-color: #333;       /* Color of the border */
}

Shorthand:

border: 2px solid #333;

You can also style individual sides:

border-top: 1px dashed red;
border-right: 2px solid blue;
border-bottom: none;
border-left: 3px dotted green;

🔄 Border Radius

To make rounded corners:

border-radius: 10px; /* Applies to all corners */
border-radius: 10px 5px 15px 0; /* top-left, top-right, bottom-right, bottom-left */

🧪 Example

<div style="
  background: #eee url('pattern.png') repeat;
  border: 2px solid #444;
  border-radius: 10px;
  padding: 20px;">
  This box has a background, border, and rounded corners.
</div>

 

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