{
  "title":"SVG in CSS backgrounds",
  "description":"Method of using SVG images as CSS backgrounds",
  "spec":"http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#background-image",
  "status":"cr",
  "links":[
    {
      "url":"http://www.sitepoint.com/a-farewell-to-css3-gradients/",
      "title":"Tutorial for advanced effects"
    }
  ],
  "bugs":[
    {
      "description":"Opera messes background repeat when changing zoom level: [known issue in Opera's private bug tracker (CORE-33071)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15220910/svg-as-css-background-problems-with-zoom-level-in-opera#comment21458317_15220910)"
    },
    {
      "description":"IE 10 Mobile does not always provide crisp SVG backgrounds, particularly when zooming in."
    },
    {
      "description":"Android 2.x will not display the fallback background-image in addition to not displaying the SVG if it is implemented using multiple background-image properties on the same element. (e.g. PNG background-image fallback + SVG background-image)"
    }
  ],
  "categories":[
    "CSS3",
    "SVG"
  ],
  "stats":{
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      "5.5":"n",
      "6":"n",
      "7":"n",
      "8":"n",
      "9":"y",
      "10":"y",
      "11":"y"
    },
    "edge":{
      "12":"y",
      "13":"y",
      "14":"y"
    },
    "firefox":{
      "2":"n",
      "3":"n",
      "3.5":"n",
      "3.6":"n",
      "4":"a #2",
      "5":"a #2",
      "6":"a #2",
      "7":"a #2",
      "8":"a #2",
      "9":"a #2",
      "10":"a #2",
      "11":"a #2",
      "12":"a #2",
      "13":"a #2",
      "14":"a #2",
      "15":"a #2",
      "16":"a #2",
      "17":"a #2",
      "18":"a #2",
      "19":"a #2",
      "20":"a #2",
      "21":"a #2",
      "22":"a #2",
      "23":"a #2",
      "24":"y",
      "25":"y",
      "26":"y",
      "27":"y",
      "28":"y",
      "29":"y",
      "30":"y",
      "31":"y",
      "32":"y",
      "33":"y",
      "34":"y",
      "35":"y",
      "36":"y",
      "37":"y",
      "38":"y",
      "39":"y",
      "40":"y",
      "41":"y",
      "42":"y",
      "43":"y",
      "44":"y",
      "45":"y",
      "46":"y",
      "47":"y",
      "48":"y",
      "49":"y",
      "50":"y",
      "51":"y",
      "52":"y",
      "53":"y"
    },
    "chrome":{
      "4":"a",
      "5":"y",
      "6":"y",
      "7":"y",
      "8":"y",
      "9":"y",
      "10":"y",
      "11":"y",
      "12":"y",
      "13":"y",
      "14":"y",
      "15":"y",
      "16":"y",
      "17":"y",
      "18":"y",
      "19":"y",
      "20":"y",
      "21":"y",
      "22":"y",
      "23":"y",
      "24":"y",
      "25":"y",
      "26":"y",
      "27":"y",
      "28":"y",
      "29":"y",
      "30":"y",
      "31":"y",
      "32":"y",
      "33":"y",
      "34":"y",
      "35":"y",
      "36":"y",
      "37":"y",
      "38":"y",
      "39":"y",
      "40":"y",
      "41":"y",
      "42":"y",
      "43":"y",
      "44":"y",
      "45":"y",
      "46":"y",
      "47":"y",
      "48":"y",
      "49":"y",
      "50":"y",
      "51":"y",
      "52":"y",
      "53":"y",
      "54":"y",
      "55":"y",
      "56":"y",
      "57":"y"
    },
    "safari":{
      "3.1":"n",
      "3.2":"a #1",
      "4":"a #1",
      "5":"y",
      "5.1":"y",
      "6":"y",
      "6.1":"y",
      "7":"y",
      "7.1":"y",
      "8":"y",
      "9":"y",
      "9.1":"y",
      "10":"y",
      "TP":"y"
    },
    "opera":{
      "9":"n",
      "9.5-9.6":"y",
      "10.0-10.1":"y",
      "10.5":"y",
      "10.6":"y",
      "11":"y",
      "11.1":"y",
      "11.5":"y",
      "11.6":"y",
      "12":"y",
      "12.1":"y",
      "15":"y",
      "16":"y",
      "17":"y",
      "18":"y",
      "19":"y",
      "20":"y",
      "21":"y",
      "22":"y",
      "23":"y",
      "24":"y",
      "25":"y",
      "26":"y",
      "27":"y",
      "28":"y",
      "29":"y",
      "30":"y",
      "31":"y",
      "32":"y",
      "33":"y",
      "34":"y",
      "35":"y",
      "36":"y",
      "37":"y",
      "38":"y",
      "39":"y",
      "40":"y",
      "41":"y",
      "42":"y",
      "43":"y"
    },
    "ios_saf":{
      "3.2":"a #1",
      "4.0-4.1":"a #1",
      "4.2-4.3":"y",
      "5.0-5.1":"y",
      "6.0-6.1":"y",
      "7.0-7.1":"y",
      "8":"y",
      "8.1-8.4":"y",
      "9.0-9.2":"y",
      "9.3":"y",
      "10-10.1":"y"
    },
    "op_mini":{
      "all":"a #2"
    },
    "android":{
      "2.1":"n",
      "2.2":"n",
      "2.3":"n",
      "3":"y",
      "4":"y",
      "4.1":"y",
      "4.2-4.3":"y",
      "4.4":"y",
      "4.4.3-4.4.4":"y",
      "53":"y"
    },
    "bb":{
      "7":"y",
      "10":"y"
    },
    "op_mob":{
      "10":"a #2",
      "11":"a #2",
      "11.1":"a #2",
      "11.5":"a #2",
      "12":"a #2",
      "12.1":"a #2",
      "37":"y"
    },
    "and_chr":{
      "54":"y"
    },
    "and_ff":{
      "50":"y"
    },
    "ie_mob":{
      "10":"y",
      "11":"y"
    },
    "and_uc":{
      "11":"y"
    },
    "samsung":{
      "4":"y"
    }
  },
  "notes":"",
  "notes_by_num":{
    "1":"Partial support in iOS Safari and older Safari versions refers to failing to support tiling or the background-position property.",
    "2":"Partial support in older Firefox and Opera Mini/Mobile refers to SVG images being blurry when scaled."
  },
  "usage_perc_y":93.22,
  "usage_perc_a":4.35,
  "ucprefix":false,
  "parent":"",
  "keywords":"svg-in-css,svgincss,css-svg",
  "ie_id":"",
  "chrome_id":"",
  "firefox_id":"",
  "webkit_id":"",
  "shown":true
}