{"id":1960,"date":"2016-06-23T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cssreset.com\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2016-06-23T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T14:36:09","slug":"css3s-background-property-the-shorthand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/css3s-background-property-the-shorthand\/","title":{"rendered":"CSS3&#8217;s Background Property: the Shorthand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a <em>lot<\/em>\u00a0 of different variations for CSS3&#8217;s background property that are used very often &#8212; especially when we&#8217;re working with a background that&#8217;s an image. Styling a background can result in the accumulation of several different lines of CSS, each one defining a different variation of the background property. OR, we can make things a little simpler by using shorthand to define all of the values of the background property.<\/p>\n<p>The shorthand for the background property will take up to 8 values:<\/p>\n<div id=\"ig-sh-1\" class=\"syntax_hilite\">\r\n\r\n\t\t<div class=\"toolbar\">\r\n\r\n\t\t<div class=\"view-different-container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"view-different\">&lt; View <span>plain text<\/span> &gt;<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\t<div class=\"language-name\">css<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<br clear=\"both\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\r\n\t<div class=\"code\">\r\n\t\t<ol class=\"css\" style=\"font-family:monospace\"><li style=\"font-weight: normal;vertical-align:top\"><div style=\"font: normal normal 1em\/1.2em monospace;margin:0;padding:0;background:none;vertical-align:top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-weight: bold\">background<\/span><span style=\"color: #00AA00\">:<\/span> <span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#091;<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-weight: bold\">background-color<\/span><span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#093;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#091;<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-weight: bold\">background-image<\/span><span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#093;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#091;<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-weight: bold\">background-repeat<\/span><span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#093;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#091;<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-weight: bold\">background-attachment<\/span><span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#093;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#091;<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-weight: bold\">background-position<\/span><span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#093;<\/span> \/ <span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#091;<\/span>background-size<span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#093;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#091;<\/span>background-origin<span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#093;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#091;<\/span>background-clip<span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#093;<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\n<p>This short hand property contains a lot of values, but using it will definitely help to clean up and condense your code. 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