Snippets tagged “background”

To set a background drawable programmatically in Android, you can use the setBackgroundDrawable method of the View class.

How to add border as a frame for images. Also add image borders to images. See also Circle and Round frames. All with examples.

If you want to make your website more attractive, read this snippet and learn how to add both a background-image and CSS3 gradient to the same element.

In our snippet, we’ll show how to properly use the padding to overcome the difficulty of applying the padding not only to the list items but also to images.

On this page, we’ll demonstrate how to animate the background of a progress bar created with the HTML <progress> element. Read this snippet to find the answer.

In this tutorial, find out how you can center your background image within a <div> element. For that, use the CSS background and background-size properties.

It may be difficult to style buttons, especially when we need to change them to images. You can change buttons to images with <input> and <button> elements.

You don't know how to click through a div to its underlying elements, and this causes some problems for you? Read this snippet and solve this problem.

If you want to make your Website attractive and interesting for the visitors, read our snippet and learn to create a shining text animation effect.

Use CSS3 opacity property to make an image or a background transparent. Learn also how to change the opacity while hovering. All with examples.

One design feature that can cause difficulty is a semi-transparent background. We’ll show how to make a transparent background with an opaque text on it.

How to style the select box. Learn 4 ways of replacing the annoying drop-down arrow and setting either a background-image instead of it or a punctuation mark.

In this snippet, we’ll show how you can turn a rectangular image into a cropped square. We’ll use CSS and turn an image into a square without distorting it.