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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Enhancing the Design With CSS Transparent Gradients and Multiple Backgrounds

Posted by Victor Mercier
Victor Mercier
14,667 Points

Multiple backgrounds

I learned that : if we defined a fully opaque background-image or color, anywhere above the bottom layer, it will cover up the background images behind it.

Now, is someone able to give me a concrete example because I don't really understand.

1 Answer

Frederic Saddi
Frederic Saddi
14,182 Points

I'm not sure I understood the question completely, but I hope this helps:

Let's say your body element has a background-image, and you have a div that has a background-color attribute. When you load the page, you will see that the image is covered by your div!

<html>
    <body style="background-color: black">
        <div style="width:50px; height:50px; background-color: white">
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

You can try to view this code, hope it helps!