CSS | border-image-repeat Property

Difficulty Level : Easy
Last Updated : 07 Aug, 2019

The border-image-repeat property in CSS is used to scaling and tiling the border images. It can be used to match the middle part of the border-image to the size of the border. It can have either one or two values. One is for horizontal and one for the vertical axis. Only one value is given then it applies to all sides, but two values are given it is given one value for horizontal and another for vertical sides.

Syntax:

border-image-repeat: stretch|repeat|round|initial|inherit

Property Values:

stretch: It is the default value and used to stretch the image to fill the area.

Syntax:
```
border-image-repeat: stretch;
```

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <title>
            CSS border-image-repeat Property
        </title> 
          
        <!-- CSS property -->
        <style> 
            h2 {
                border: 20px solid transparent;
                padding: 20px;
                border-image-source: 
url(https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/border2-2.png);
                border-image-repeat: stretch;
                border-image-slice: 40;
                text-align:center;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
      
    <body>
        <h2>border-image-repeat: stretch;</h2>
    </body>
</html>                    

Output:

repeat: This property is used to repeat the background image.

Syntax:
```
border-image-repeat: repeat;
```

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <title>
            CSS border-image-repeat Property
        </title> 
          
        <!-- CSS property -->
        <style> 
            h2 {
                border: 20px solid transparent;
                padding: 20px;
                border-image-source: 
url(https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/border2-2.png);
                border-image-repeat: repeat;
                border-image-slice: 40;
                text-align:center;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
      
    <body>
        <h2>border-image-repeat: repeat;</h2>
    </body>
</html>                    

Output:

round: It is used to repeat the image to fill the area. If the image doesn’t fill the area in the whole number of tiles the image is rescaled.

Syntax:
```
border-image-repeat: round;
```

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <title>
            CSS border-image-repeat Property
        </title> 
          
        <!-- CSS property -->
        <style> 
            h2 {
                border: 20px solid transparent;
                padding: 20px;
                border-image-source: 
url(https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/border2-2.png);
                border-image-repeat: round;
                border-image-slice: 40;
                text-align:center;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
      
    <body>
        <h2>border-image-repeat: round;</h2>
    </body>
</html>                    

Output:

initial: It is used to set border-image-repeat property to its default value.

Syntax:
```
border-image-repeat: initial;
```

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <title>
            CSS border-image-repeat Property
        </title> 
          
        <!-- CSS property -->
        <style> 
            h2 {
                border: 20px solid transparent;
                padding: 20px;
                border-image-source: 
url(https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/border2-2.png);
                border-image-repeat: initial;
                border-image-slice: 40;
                text-align:center;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
      
    <body>
        <h2>border-image-repeat: initial;</h2>
    </body>
</html>                    