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user1261800

Reputation:

CSS: Creating textured backgrounds

I'm currently struggling with setting an image background for my site that will load fast enough.

I have used data url image and even optomized images but it's taking to long when loading the page since the backgournd-image is still very large.

Is it possible with CSS to create a textured background color like the one in the picture below?

I tried and couldn't match this:

enter image description here

Upvotes: 67

Views: 236446

Answers (5)

Gass
Gass

Reputation: 9384

It's also possible to add texture using only CSS with repeating-linear-gradient()

Try the following example:

div {
    margin:10px;
    width:200px;
    height:200px;
    background-color: #67686b;
}

.pattern1{
    background-image: repeating-linear-gradient(36deg, rgba(255,255,255, 0.1), rgba(255,255,255, 0.1) 1px, transparent 0px, transparent 2px);
}

.pattern2 {
    background-image: repeating-linear-gradient(-45deg, rgba(255,255,255, 0.1), rgba(255,255,255, 0.1) 1px, transparent 1px, transparent 6px);
    background-size: 4px 4px;
}
<section style='display:flex'>
  <div class='pattern1'></div>
  <div class='pattern2'></div>
</section>

Bonus: in this link you can find different types of patterns which you can customize to fit your needs.

Upvotes: 6

Perette
Perette

Reputation: 841

Use an image editor to cut out a portion of the background, then apply CSS's background-repeat property to make the small image fill the area where it is used.

In some cases, background-repeat creates seams where the image repeats. A solution is to use an image editor as follows: starting with the background image, copy the image, flip (mirror, not rotate) the copy left-to-right, and paste it to the right edge of the original, overlapping 1 pixel. Crop to remove 1 pixel from the right edge of the combined image. Now repeat for the vertical: copy the combined image, flip the copy top-to-bottom, paste it to the bottom of the combined, overlapping one pixel. Crop to remove 1 pixel from the bottom. The resulting image should be seam-free.

Upvotes: 1

IvanRider
IvanRider

Reputation: 21

If you search for an image base-64 converter, you can embed some small image texture files as code into your @import url('') section of code. It will look like a lot of code; but at least all your data is now stored locally - rather than having to call a separate resource to load the image.

Example link: http://www.base64-image.de/

When I take a file from my own inventory of a simple icon in PNG format, and convert it to base-64, it looks like this in my CSS: 

url('data:image/png;base64,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')

With your texture images, you'll want to employ a similar process.

Upvotes: 2

Kamal
Kamal

Reputation: 1964

with latest CSS3 technology, it is possible to create textured background. Check this out: http://lea.verou.me/css3patterns/#

but it still limited on so many aspect. And browser support is also not so ready.

your best bet is using small texture image and make repeat to that background. you could get some nice ready to use texture image here:

http://subtlepatterns.com

Upvotes: 102

Akhilesh B Chandran
Akhilesh B Chandran

Reputation: 6608

You should try slicing the image if possible into a smaller piece which could be repeated. I have sliced that image to a 101x101px image.

BG Tile

CSS:

body{
  background-image: url(SO_texture_bg.jpg);
  background-repeat:repeat;
}

But in some cases, we wouldn't be able to slice the image to a smaller one. In that case, I would use the whole image. But you could also use the CSS3 methods like what Mustafa Kamal had mentioned.

Wish you good luck.

Upvotes: 31

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