Description

The background attribute is used to display a background image on the web page. It’s not possible to specify how the image is to be displayed (for example, you can’t specify it to be centered, non-repeating, aligned to a specific edge), but will simply be repeated along both the x and y axis. Because of this, most web pages to which this technique is applied either display the background as small, repeated images; huge images must be used to avoid this kind of tiling repetition.

This attribute is now deprecated. Background images should instead be specified using the CSS background or background-image properties. These offer far more flexibility, allowing the author to define whether the image should be repeated on the x or y axis, along both axes, or not at all; it’s also possible to position the image relative to any of the document’s edges.