CSS border-image-repeat Property

Last Updated : 13 Jun, 2023

The border-image-repeat property in CSS is used to scale 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 the 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 the horizontal and another for the vertical sides.

Syntax:

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

Property Values:

stretch: It is the default value and is used to stretch the image to fill the area.
repeat: This property is used to repeat the background image.
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.
initial: It is used to set the border-image-repeat property to its default value.
inherit: It is used to set border-image-repeat property from its parent.

Example: In this example, we are using border-image-repeat: stretch; property.

HTML

<!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:

stretch

Example: In this example, we are using border-image-repeat: repeat; property.

HTML

<!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: stretch

Example: In this example, we are using border-image-repeat: round; property.

html

<!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: stretch

Example: In this example, we are using border-image-repeat: initial; property.

html

<!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>