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CSS Properties: How to specify the painting area of the background?

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Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"><!-- Set the character encoding of the HTML document -->
<title>How to specify the painting area of the background</title><!-- Set the title of the HTML document -->
<style> /* CSS style start*/
#xyz1 {
border: 5px #0033FF; /* Set border properties for the first div */
border-style: dotted double; /* Specify the border style */
margin: 2em; /* Set margin for the first div */
padding: 2em; /* Set padding for the first div */
background: #3399CC; /* Set background color for the first div */
background-clip: padding-box; /* Specify the painting area of the background to be inside the padding */
}

#xyz2 {
border: 5px #0033FF; /* Set border properties for the second div */
border-style: dotted double; /* Specify the border style */
margin: 2em; /* Set margin for the second div */
padding: 2em; /* Set padding for the second div */
background: #3399CC; /* Set background color for the second div */
}

#xyz3 {
border: 5px #0033FF; /* Set border properties for the third div */
border-style: dotted double; /* Specify the border style */
margin: 2em; /* Set margin for the third div */
padding: 2em; /* Set padding for the third div */
background: #3399CC; /* Set background color for the third div */
background-clip: content-box; /* Specify the painting area of the background to be inside the content box */
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="xyz1"><!-- First div with specified styling -->
<h2>w3resource</h2>
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</div>
<div id="xyz2"><!-- Second div with similar styling as the first div -->
<h2>w3resource</h2>
<p>Free web development tutorial.</p>
</div>
<div id="xyz3"><!-- Third div with a different background-clip value -->
<h2>w3resource</h2>
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</div>
</body>
</html>

Explanation:

  • The HTML document contains three div elements with different styles applied.
  • Each div has its own unique ID (xyz1, xyz2, xyz3).
  • CSS styles are applied to these divs to specify their appearance, including borders, margins, padding, and background color.
  • The background-clip property determines the painting area of the background within each div:
    • padding-box clips the background to the area within the padding of the div.
    • content-box clips the background to the area within the content box of the div.
  • The content within each div consists of an <h2> heading and a paragraph (<p>).

Live Demo:

See the Pen background-clip-answer by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.


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