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To put an image as a background in CSS seems a little overwhelming since the images position won't be as perfect as we want it. Whether to put an image on a specific part of the screen or to cover the whole screen as a background, following a little rule would make it a lot easier.

For a full background we would put the property on the body tag, so it can can be applied through the whole page, but that is not a good idea to do that if we are building a website that we actually scroll. In order for that to happen we need to wrap the whole thing in a div or a section tag. And give that a class or an id and give the property using css. The property on the css on an element that has a class of showcase would look like..

.showcase{
background: url('./showcase.jpg'); //the image must be on the same directory...if it was on another folder we would have to change the url. If that is hard, contact me through @jamesScript i would personally guide you through that.

.showcase{
Background: url('showcase.jpg');
background-size: cover; //makes the image not be cropped
Background-repeat: no-repeat; //this would make the image not get repeated and look horrendous.
Background-position: center; //this will position it at the center
height: 100vh; //this would give it the height of the whole screens, if you consider the screen as a 100 slices saying 100vh means saying 100 slices, saying 50vh means half the screens half slice..
These properties would position the image as the screen background..

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To put an image as a background in CSS seems a little overwhelming since the images position won't be as perfect as we want it. Whether to put an image on a specific part of the screen or to cover the whole screen as a background, following a little rule would make it a lot easier.

For a full background we would put the property on the body tag, so it can can be applied through the whole page, but that is not a good idea to do that if we are building a website that we actually scroll. In order for that to happen we need to wrap the whole thing in a div or a section tag. And give that a class or an id and give the property using css. The property on the css on an element that has a class of showcase would look like..

.showcase{
background: url('./showcase.jpg'); //the image must be on the same directory...if it was on another folder we would have to change the url. If that is hard, contact me through @jamesScript i would personally guide you through that.

.showcase{
Background: url('showcase.jpg');
background-size: cover; //makes the image not be cropped
Background-repeat: no-repeat; //this would make the image not get repeated and look horrendous.
Background-position: center; //this will position it at the center
height: 100vh; //this would give it the height of the whole screens, if you consider the screen as a 100 slices saying 100vh means saying 100 slices, saying 50vh means half the screens half slice..
These properties would position the image as the screen background..

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