HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
Attribute Description
background-color:
color
Defines the color of the background, where
color
is a CSS color
name or value; the keyword “inherit” can be used to inherit the
background color of the parent element, or “transparent”can
be used to allow the parent element background image to show
through
background-image: url(
url
)
Specifies the image file used for the element's background, where
url
is the URL of the image file
background-origin:
box
Specifies the origin of the background image, where
box
is
border-box, padding-box, or content-box (CSS3)
background-position:
x y
Sets the position of a background image, where
x
is the horizontal
location in pixels, as a percentage of the width of the parent ele-
ment, or the keyword “left”, “center”, or “right”,
y
is the vertical
location in pixels, as a percentage of the height and of the parent
element, or the keyword, “top”, “center”, or “bottom”
background-repeat:
type
Defines the method for repeating the background image,
where
type
is no-repeat, repeat (to tile the image in both
directions),repeat-x (to tile the image in the horizontal direction
only), or repeat-y (to tile the image in the vertical direction only)
Sets the size of the background image, where
size
is auto, cover,
contain, a
length
, or a
percentage
(CSS3)
background-size:
size
Block-Level Styles
Styles applied to block-level elements
border:
length
style
color
Defines the border style of the element, where
length
is the bor-
der width,
style
is the border design, and
color
is the border color
border-bottom:
length
style color
Defines the border style of the bottom edge of the element
border-left:
length
style color
Defines the border style of the left edge of the element
border-right:
length
style color
Defines the border style of the right edge of the element
border-top:
length
style color
Defines the border style of the top edge of the element
border-color:
color
Defines the color applied to the element's border using a CSS
color unit
border-bottom-color:
color
Defines the color applied to the bottom edge of the element
border-left-color:
color
Defines the color applied to the left edge of the element
border-right-color:
color
Defines the color applied to the right edge of the element
border-top-color:
color
Defines the color applied to the top edge of the element
border-image: url(
url
)
size
Sets an image file for the border, where
url
is the location of the
image file and
size
is stretch, repeat, round, none, a
length
, or a
percentage
(CSS3)
border-style:
style
Specifies the design of the element's border (dashed, dotted
double, groove, inset, none, outset, ridge, or solid)
border-style-bottom:
style
Specifies the design of the element's bottom edge
border-style-left:
style
Specifies the design of the element's left edge
border-style-right:
style
Specifies the design of the element's right edge
border-style-top:
style
Specifies the design of the element's top edge
border-radius:
tr br bl tl
Specifies the radius of the border corners in pixels, where
tr
is the
top-right corner,
br
is the bottom-right corner,
bl
is the bottom-
left corner, and
tl
is the top-left corner (CSS3)
