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background-position

Utilities for controlling the position of an element's background image.

ClassStyles
bg-top-left
background-position: top left;

| | bg-top |

background-position: top;

| | bg-top-right |

background-position: top right;

| | bg-left |

background-position: left;

| | bg-center |

background-position: center;

| | bg-right |

background-position: right;

| | bg-bottom-left |

background-position: bottom left;

| | bg-bottom |

background-position: bottom;

| | bg-bottom-right |

background-position: bottom right;

| | bg-position-(<custom-property>) |

background-position: var(<custom-property>);

| | bg-position-[<value>] |

background-position: <value>;

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Use utilities like bg-center, bg-right, and bg-top-left to control the position of an element's background image:

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bg-top-left

bg-top

bg-top-right

bg-left

bg-center

bg-right

bg-bottom-left

bg-bottom

bg-bottom-right

<div class="bg-[url(/img/mountains.jpg)] bg-top-left"></div><div class="bg-[url(/img/mountains.jpg)] bg-top"></div><div class="bg-[url(/img/mountains.jpg)] bg-top-right"></div><div class="bg-[url(/img/mountains.jpg)] bg-left"></div><div class="bg-[url(/img/mountains.jpg)] bg-center"></div><div class="bg-[url(/img/mountains.jpg)] bg-right"></div><div class="bg-[url(/img/mountains.jpg)] bg-bottom-left"></div><div class="bg-[url(/img/mountains.jpg)] bg-bottom"></div><div class="bg-[url(/img/mountains.jpg)] bg-bottom-right"></div>

Use the bg-position-[<value>] syntax to set the background position based on a completely custom value:

<div class="bg-position-[center_top_1rem] ...">  <!-- ... --></div>

For CSS variables, you can also use the bg-position-(<custom-property>) syntax:

<div class="bg-position-(--my-bg-position) ...">  <!-- ... --></div>

This is just a shorthand for bg-position-[var(<custom-property>)] that adds the var() function for you automatically.

Prefix a background-position utility with a breakpoint variant like md: to only apply the utility at medium screen sizes and above:

<div class="bg-center md:bg-top ...">  <!-- ... --></div>

Learn more about using variants in the variants documentation.

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