The CSS Background-Clip Property

Explaining the background clip

The CSS background-clip property is used to define the area to which the element's background extends:

div {
    background-clip: content-box;
    border: 5px dotted black;
    padding: 20px;
    background: lightblue;
}

Note: this property is neither inheritable nor animatable.

Syntax for the background-clip

The syntax for the CSS background-clip property is simple:

background-clip: value;

You can define one out of four possible property values which we explain in the next section.

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Property values

Each element in CSS has three areas which can also be called boxes:

• the content box holds the actual content of the element (e.g., text or images).
• the padding box holds the content box plus its padding.
• the border box holds the padding box (with the content box inside) plus its border.

The CSS background-clip property values are set according to these boxes as well:

Browser support

Chrome

1+

Edge

12+

Firefox

4+

IE

9+

Opera

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Safari

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Mobile browser support

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Firefox

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Opera

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Safari

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