Background Position – Tailwind CSS

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

Basic usage

Setting the background position

Use the bg-{side} utilities to control the position of an element’s background image.

bg-left-top

bg-top

bg-right-top

bg-left

bg-center

bg-right

bg-left-bottom

bg-bottom

bg-right-bottom

<

div

class

=

"

bg-no-repeat

bg-left-top

...

"

style

=

"

background-image

:

url

(

...

)

;

"

>

</

div

>

<

div

class

=

"

bg-no-repeat

bg-top

...

"

style

=

"

background-image

:

url

(

...

)

;

"

>

</

div

>

<

div

class

=

"

bg-no-repeat

bg-right-top

...

"

style

=

"

background-image

:

url

(

...

)

;

"

>

</

div

>

<

div

class

=

"

bg-no-repeat

bg-left

...

"

style

=

"

background-image

:

url

(

...

)

;

"

>

</

div

>

<

div

class

=

"

bg-no-repeat

bg-center

...

"

style

=

"

background-image

:

url

(

...

)

;

"

>

</

div

>

<

div

class

=

"

bg-no-repeat

bg-right

...

"

style

=

"

background-image

:

url

(

...

)

;

"

>

</

div

>

<

div

class

=

"

bg-no-repeat

bg-left-bottom

...

"

style

=

"

background-image

:

url

(

...

)

;

"

>

</

div

>

<

div

class

=

"

bg-no-repeat

bg-bottom

...

"

style

=

"

background-image

:

url

(

...

)

;

"

>

</

div

>

<

div

class

=

"

bg-no-repeat

bg-right-bottom

...

"

style

=

"

background-image

:

url

(

...

)

;

"

>

</

div

>

Applying conditionally

Hover, focus, and other states

Tailwind lets you conditionally apply utility classes in different states using variant modifiers. For example, use hover : bg-top to only apply the bg-top utility on hover .

<

div

class

=

"

bg-center

hover:bg-top

...

"

style

=

"

background-image

:

url

(

...

)

"

>

</

div

>

For a complete list of all available state modifiers, check out the Hover, Focus, & Other States documentation.

Breakpoints and media queries

You can also use variant modifiers to target media queries like responsive breakpoints, dark mode, prefers-reduced-motion, and more. For example, use md: bg-top to apply the bg-top utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

<

div

class

=

"

bg-center

md:bg-top

...

"

style

=

"

background-image

:

url

(

...

)

"

>

</

div

>

To learn more, check out the documentation on Responsive Design, Dark Mode and other media query modifiers.

Using custom values

Customizing your theme

By default, Tailwind provides nine background-position utilities. You change, add, or remove these by editing the theme.backgroundPosition section of your Tailwind config.

tailwind.config.js

module

.

exports

=

{

theme

:

{

backgroundPosition

:

{

bottom

:

'bottom'

,

'bottom-4'

:

'center bottom 1rem'

,

center

:

'center'

,

left

:

'left'

,

'left-bottom'

:

'left bottom'

,

'left-top'

:

'left top'

,

right

:

'right'

,

'right-bottom'

:

'right bottom'

,

'right-top'

:

'right top'

,

top

:

'top'

,

'top-4'

:

'center top 1rem'

,

}

}

}

Learn more about customizing the default theme in the theme customization documentation.

Arbitrary values

If you need to use a one-off background-position value that doesn’t make sense to include in your theme, use square brackets to generate a property on the fly using any arbitrary value.

<

div

class

=

"

bg-[center_top_1rem]

"

>

</

div

>

Learn more about arbitrary value support in the arbitrary values documentation.