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Learn about CSS background images and responsive image properties in this full tutorial for beginners. Resize your images by browser size and set great backgrounds where text content is still the main focus.

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CSS Background Images and Responsive Image Properties for Beginners

(00:00) Intro
(00:05) Welcome
(00:26) Starter Code
(01:33) Prevent content layout shift
(04:02) Style responsive images
(06:23) Remove the default space under images
(08:51) Profile picture example
(13:32) Hero section
(18:37) Fallback background-color
(19:31) Setting a background-image
(21:01) background-repeat
(21:38) background image patterns
(23:04) background-size
(24:57) Image size considerations
(26:24) Make text standout over a background
(28:50) Create a background mask layer
(31:50) background-position
(33:28) linear-gradient backgrounds
(36:19) Multiple background image layers
(38:51) background-size
(39:23) Filling text with a background image
(44:35) background property shorthand

️ Image Resources:
Placeholder Image Generators:
https://loremipsum.io/21-of-the-best-placeholder-image-generators/
Sites with Freely-Usable Images:
https://unsplash.com/
https://www.pexels.com/
https://gratisography.com/
https://pixabay.com/
Image Editing / Resizing Software:
For Windows: https://www.irfanview.com/
As a Service: https://www.canva.com/
Suggestions for Mac:
https://www.cleverfiles.com/howto/top-5-photo-editing-apps-mac.html
Full Featured Editor for Windows/Mac/Linux:
https://www.gimp.org/
Image Compression (shrink file size):
https://tinypng.com/

Web Dev Tools:
Chrome Browser: https://www.google.com/chrome/
Visual Studio Code (VS Code): https://code.visualstudio.com/
Live Server VS Code Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer
vscode-icons VS Code Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscode-icons-team.vscode-icons
Github Themes VS Code Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.github-vscode-theme
W3C CSS Validator: https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Specificity Calculator: https://specificity.keegan.st/
HTML Special Characters and Entities: https://unicode-table.com
CanIUse.com: https://caniuse.com/

References:
MDN CSS Selectors: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/Selectors
MDN - How to Apply Colors to HTML Elements with CSS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color
MDN - CSS Values and Units: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/Values_and_units
MDN - The Box Model: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/The_box_model
MDN - Styling Lists: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Styling_text/Styling_lists
MDN - Display Property: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/display
MDN - Floats: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layout/Floats
MDN - Columns: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Columns/Basic_Concepts_of_Multicol
MDN - Margin Collapsing: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Box_Model/Mastering_margin_collapsing
MDN - White-Space: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/white-space
MDN - Positioning: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layout/Positioning
MDN - Flexbox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layout/Flexbox
MDN - Basic Concepts of Grid Layout: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Grid_Layout/Basic_Concepts_of_Grid_Layout
MDN - Grid Template Areas: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Grid_Layout/Grid_Template_Areas
MDN - CSS Images: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Images
MDN - CSS Background Images: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Backgrounds_and_Borders/Resizing_background_images
Chip Cullen - Article on Content Layout Shift: https://chipcullen.com/what-width-and-height-attributes-to-use-with-responsive-images/

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