CSS url() Function

The url() function is an inbuilt function that is used to include a file. The parameter of this function is absolute URL, relative URL or a data URI. The url() function can be used for background-image, border-image, list-style-image, content, cursor, border-image, border-image-source, src as part of a @font-face block, and @counter-style/symbol.

Syntax:

url( <string> <url-modifier>* )

Parameters: This function accepts a single parameter url which holds the url in string format.

The examples of url are:

<css_property>: url("https://geeksforgeeks.org/image.png")
<css_property>: url('https://geeksforgeeks.org/image.png')
<css_property>: url(https://geeksforgeeks.org/image.png)

Example: Below example illustrates the url() function in CSS:

html

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

    <title>CSS url() function</title>
 
    <style>

        body {

            background-image: url(
"https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/cdn-uploads/20190710102234/download3.png");

            text-align: center;

        }
 
        h1 {

            color: white;

        }

    </style>

</head>
 
<body>

    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>

    <h2>CSS url() function</h2>

</body>

</html>

Output:

Supported Browsers: The browsers supported by url() function are listed below:

Google Chrome 1
Edge 12
Internet Explorer 3
Firefox 1
Safari 1
Opera 3.5

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