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background-repeat

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

ClassStyles
bg-repeat
background-repeat: repeat;

| | bg-repeat-x |

background-repeat: repeat-x;

| | bg-repeat-y |

background-repeat: repeat-y;

| | bg-repeat-space |

background-repeat: space;

| | bg-repeat-round |

background-repeat: round;

| | bg-no-repeat |

background-repeat: no-repeat;

|

Use the bg-repeat utility to repeat the background image both vertically and horizontally:

<div class="bg-[url(/img/clouds.svg)] bg-center bg-repeat ..."></div>

Use the bg-repeat-x utility to only repeat the background image horizontally:

<div class="bg-[url(/img/clouds.svg)] bg-center bg-repeat-x ..."></div>

Use the bg-repeat-y utility to only repeat the background image vertically:

<div class="bg-[url(/img/clouds.svg)] bg-center bg-repeat-y ..."></div>

Use the bg-repeat-space utility to repeat the background image without clipping:

<div class="bg-[url(/img/clouds.svg)] bg-center bg-repeat-space ..."></div>

Use the bg-repeat-round utility to repeat the background image without clipping, stretching if needed to avoid gaps:

<div class="bg-[url(/img/clouds.svg)] bg-center bg-repeat-round ..."></div>

Use the bg-no-repeat utility to prevent a background image from repeating:

<div class="bg-[url(/img/clouds.svg)] bg-center bg-no-repeat ..."></div>

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

<div class="bg-repeat md:bg-repeat-x ...">  <!-- ... --></div>

Learn more about using variants in the variants documentation.

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