Not only good content and info, but also good presentation and sound quality. Every video is a gem

Kevin, I'm just learning CSS, and your videos are SO encouraging and refreshing! Thank you for making it all so approachable!

Don't forget your , otherwise the browser doesn't load the image before the entire CSS file is loaded and parsed. This can be very slow; especially at 3G connections.

It's so satisfying to find teacher with so much passion to teach. It's the best education anyone can get.

The bonus tip of that "background-blend-mode" property was pretty cool!

Your timing could not be better! I literately just came to your channel to find this exact topic. Keep up the good work champion.

Man, I have been over two hours of crazy frustration trying to figure out what was going on (swearing for granted) with my background - image, and in ten minutes of your video I could find the solution. Its the Kevin thing making it easy to us. Again!...

Thank you so very much for explaining the path to use in the url(), because I was so frustrated and annoyed, nothing was working and I kept wondering why, but after writing my path the way you did it works absolutely fine, I'm really grateful thank you ❤

I have used a container for the text with a dark semi transparent background. This allows the image to show through and also a darker patch for the lighter text to be displayed. It has the advantage of framing the text which I think is a great eye catching feature if done right. Just my little tip :) Great video again, well done.

Love your content, please keep it up! The way you explain things with such a calm and practicity from the most basic aspect is very conforting and encouraging for everyone, even if you're only looking for a quick fix or tip. ❣

I love when you go back to basics. Somehow it helps also to grasp advanced concepts that rely on this. Thanks!

Thank you! I actually yelled out loud when you did the dot dot in the url because that's what I'd been missing all along.

you blew my mind with background-blend-mode, none of all the courses I've done mentioned it. How cool I found your video, thanks!!!

Kevin, I am so happy I came across with your channel. You do make people fall in love with css. It really makes me stay curious. Thank you!

I hated working with CSS now I love it so much thanks to you Thank you Kevin!

Hi Kevin, First of all, I am not a comment-person at all. I detest commenting. But I just felt that, in this case, I had to make an exception. At first, I didn't even like your videos, but then I watched this one and a few others which convinced me that you're bloody good (if I may say so). I've just finished the first module of my Front-end development course. I've made all the mistakes that a beginner developer can make, and by the way that you mentioned not to do. I was struggling to put my end assignment together. And I was also binge-watching tutorials on KZfaq. However, this was one of the first videos that followed through by actually doing it. So much so that in my end-assignment I almost always used background-blend-mode for my hero images to make the text in the image more readable.

Brilliant video, thank you Kevin for all your hardwork. Your videos are really helpful for someone like me who is getting into web dev.

Thanks to teach responsiveness at the same time. I was adding a heigh every time I added a background picture , now I know better.

Great video Kevin! This is exactly what i was looking for. Thank you!

I knew most of these except the blending part. It will be very helpful! Thank you!

Thank you so much, Kevin. I really really appreciate the care, attention to detail, and focus on best practices that you put into each of your videos.

Damn nice tutorial. Your videos are always helpful and useful. You are so good at teaching and just have an absolutely brilliant talent to convey complex knowledge in simple terms.

Kevin is legit my CSS guardian angel. Thank you kev ❤️

damn, that background-blend-mode is really working like a charm, thx Kevin !!!

what I was looking for is to make it sticky background , So i found out by using background-attachment:fixed; and it worked very nice , and for a tip u can make shade on your background using background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.921), rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.914) ), url(" ./ your url for the bg "); And thank you kevin for the great work you are doing for make the web looking more aesthitic

I watched the entire video for the blend mode tag thank you man i love your content

the image being outside the folder was my problem. thanks so much, you earned a new subscriber

Lol...I just had the path issue with your section styling video. Most important to double check those paths. And the inspect tip works very well. Thanks Kevin!

Thank you so much for the last chapter of the video! I was searching for that since some hours ahaha

Thanks Kevin, i was struggling with this recently and you made it super easy to understand 👍. Much love from South Africa

First video that I watched, loved it, subscribed and reccomended to my friends.

A great instructor with great t-shirts!

Sir, you just have earned a lifelong subscriber

So helpful as always. I tried the technique of the background-blend-mode and found that if one adds the alpha channel to the multiply blend mode color (I was using black HSLA ) one can obtain even further control of the 'darkness' buy adjusting the alpha value, i.e. hsl( 0 0 0 / .3); Indebted once again to you sir.

Suggestion that isn't specific to CSS, more general web development for beginners: I noticed KZfaq is missing a single video or clear series of videos covering the steps/options for setting up a simple contact form for a website from start to finish on both front-end and back-end. Covering basic options like free, cheap, and premium tools for the backend could be an easy extra video topic that would be helpful to beginners.

you saved my keyboard from being shattered you beautiful beautiful man

good video but i've got one point: my teacher said its not a good idea to place an image via css in the website because for SEO reasons. The search engine won't recognize that there's a picture hence for better SEO it's more advisable to put pictures in or tags since it will be seen as a picture

Thank you for recommending Firefox as the main browser for web design. I like your instruction too. It's easy to understand as I right now am a very experienced beginner to whatever the next step is as a ranking.

Thank you Kevin, you are always my go to guy for css.

Finally I'm able to resolve the problem regarding background image Thank you so much sir 🤩 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✨✨😍🥰

Very helpful, and nicely explained! I am just getting into CSS, and just by pausing and peeking at your code I learned other additional things I did not know about. Maybe I should start to watch from the beginning of your series :D. Thank you very much

Thank you a lot! It helped me find the problem with my background image. Very detailed and clear explication.

Thank you Kevin. I was just saying this to someone who is stuck in adding width and height, telling them to use padding

Thank you! I watch some clips about this but your clip was full with all the information and that really help me! Again Thank you!

there are a lot of talented artists out here, but I have trouble understanding some of them. . Glad-I-found-you {

Background-blend-mode was pretty helpful!!

Thank you Kevin, for helping me build a website for another man also named Kevin

You are AMAZING! Great content and super clear. I think I am loving CSS! Thank you!

Sir, you just earned a new subscriber. This video was so helpful!!! Thank you.

Kevin...all your recent videos are solving my problems 🥺 I need to check the past ones too

You are doing great videos, with great explanations that are extremely useful for real life projects. Amazing work. My only question regarding this video is this: for how big monitors you must choose an image for? If one person has ultrawide 4k screen, should we choose a background image that can stretch and fit to those screens also or we should use media queries with different images for bigger monitors or maybe we should stop and show only a background color after certain dimensions?

You drop this...👑 KING

Greatly appreciate your explanation and assistance! Thank you!

Hello Mr. Powell. Thank you so much for your videos. They have helped me a lot.

Thank you so much for all your videos.I wish you good health and hope you are happy.

This worked incredibly well! I can finally play it thanks

Thank you for this video! You explained so well and saved my life :D

My god... saved my day practicing in VS code

The background image tutorial with HTML & CSS was very nice and simple. It was good. Thanks for shearing.

Clear like Data I love this channel

Finally someone prefer Firefox. :D

This gives me so many memories.

wow. you just solve me problem now. thank you. I like your presentation style.

thank you Kevin for this video this was driving me nuts looking for a solution

The video I didnt know I was looking for ^

There is a multiple background images stacking order thing, by which you can use multiple backgrounds. It is useful for applying for example linear gradient (to control opacity of the background image).

Great video. Exactly what I needed. Thankyou.

Been addicted to his tutorial 🥹😍

Thank you so much💙. Your video solved my biggest problem.

Nice tip about the blend mode.. I had no idea before that you could do that with css, though I knew about it from using it in Photoshop & Illustrator

thank you so much for your detailed videos. I appreciate you!!

OMG thanks you so muchh! I tried so many time to put a background-image 🤣

Thank you very much , now I will understand the functionality

Cheers dude, Helped!

Look easy , but still many years of brainstorming how do this, anyway - little closer to understand this now... ;) .css, .js ... etc. ... THX for sharing this knowledge...

I have tried everything i can find both from this video and off w3c and full stack,i can't get any background images to show, i can get them as regular images, but not background. I know my knowledge is very limited but nothing i have tried works i have tried resizing converting it to another format, copying it..still nothing shows.

Thank you so much!! It was very helpful!!!👍🏼🙏🏻

King Kevin, in an unlikely case you run out of ideas for a video, I would be curious to see how you approach overflow containers with those nice shadowed transparency masks on the edges when there is overflown content scrolled past the edge. I don't think there is a css-only solution to that, but I know css in your hands can surprise me a lot. Thank you!

This is so much helpul for me Sir thank you for your tutorial

Helped me so much thank you, thumbs up

But how do you prevent that image from like... staying the same size while the entire screen is changing sizes? You make the entire layout responsive, but the image just... stays the same size and it looks awkward. What about making it so it's static?

Bro Love your teaching so much THANK YOU CHOOOOOOOO Much

Awesome video and excellent teaching

Cool, i see that trick background-blend-mode, a few months ago on Twitter.

You are awesome sir 👏 through ur videos only I'm able to strong my front-end

Another nice tool to have in your box for legibility is `text-shadow`. In the white-text example from the video, I'd go with some dark color taken from the background image.

5:30 I struggled with the exact same problem and I got it just before you explained it fully, I literally did a facepalm to myself just now. :D

спасибо, столько форумов перечитал, и только ты нормально объяснил!

Great video! Thanks a lot!

Hi Kevin thx a million just the video I was looking for very informative and good content.

Good suggestions, thanks.

Your videos are very helpful to me sir🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

very helpful much appreciated .

You explain verry well friend!

../ ! DOT DOT FORWARD SLASH! Why was that so hard to find! thank you

You're the best Kevin

Thanks a lot Kevin ♥️.

This is great, thank you!

thank you so much for this Kevin !!!!

i dont like setting background, images or colors on the element itself i usually use ::before so i can add opacity on them optionally when i want to and since im picking my colors using var() its necessary to use ::before for adding opacity to background, because i cant add opacity to it later i like to use .95 opacity for most of the stuff so the colors of stuff blend better with each-other and i gives a nice effect since im using gradient, blur backgrounds on the body