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Background Images with HTML & CSS

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This short course explains how to link background images from an external CSS file, troubleshoot display issues, control repetition and sizing, and improve text readability.

Syllabus

- Introduction
- Don't have the images in your HTML
- Use an external CSS file
- Linking a background image in an external CSS file
- Fallback background-color
- Don't use heights
- When the image doesn't show up
- background-repeat
- When an image is too big
- Making an image fit
- BONUS - making the text readable

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Kevin Powell

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