CSS: Images

In CSS, images can be styled and manipulated using various properties to control their appearance, size, position, and behavior on web pages. Here's an overview of how CSS can be used with images:

• Displaying Images: You can display images on a webpage using the background-image property or the <img> HTML element.

<img src="path/to/image.jpg" alt="Description of the image"

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.image-container {
    background-image: url('path/to/image.jpg');
    background-size: cover;
    background-position: center;
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
}

• Image Size: You can control the size of images using the width and height properties in CSS.

img {
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
}

• Image Positioning: CSS allows you to position images within their containers using properties like float, position, top, right, bottom, and left.

.image-container {
    position: relative;
}

.absolute-positioned-image {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
}

Image Borders: You can add borders around images using the border property.

img {
    border: 1px solid black;
}

• Image Opacity: The opacity property in CSS can be used to adjust the transparency of images.

img {
    opacity: 0.5; /* 50% transparency */
}

• Image Filters: CSS filters can be applied to images to create visual effects like grayscale, blur, brightness, contrast, etc.

img {
    filter: grayscale(100%);
}

• Image Sprites: CSS sprites are used to combine multiple images into a single image file and display specific portions of the image as needed.

.sprite-icon {
    background-image: url('path/to/sprite.png');
    background-position: -20px -40px; /* Position of the desired image within the sprite */
    width: 20px;
    height: 20px;
}

• Responsive Images: You can make images responsive by using relative units like percentages or max-width property to ensure they scale proportionally with the viewport.

img {
    max-width: 100%;
    height: auto;
}

These are some of the ways you can use CSS to style and work with images on web pages. CSS offers a wide range of capabilities to enhance the visual presentation and functionality of images in your designs.