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Asked: 2026-06-09T00:57:32+00:00

I like sprites, they are extremely helpful to my overall needs, however. I am

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I like sprites, they are extremely helpful to my overall needs, however. I am trying to figure out if there is a means of using a sprite image as a background image for an element thats 100% wide, but the background part of the sprite I want to apply is 1px wide. Where as the sprite is currently 100px wide and about 180px high currently. Is this even possible/legal? If so how would I do that? Or do I have to stick with the idea of a 1px by 120px image thats independent of the sprite to span a background the way I want to on a given element?

Note I thought about doing just the 0 0 position of the sprite as the BG I want but my issue with that is I have a similar portion of the sprite I want to use as a rollover effect for some areas

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  1. Editorial Team

    For a repeating background image you’d need to use an image that’s independent of the sprite; as there is, to my knowledge, no way of specifying a particular segment of a sprite to repeat across the background, so you’d end up simply showing, and repeating, the entirety of the sprite.

    And it seems, certainly in Chromium 19, that using background-size isn’t the answer.

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