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Asked: 2026-06-11T10:49:37+00:00

I’m a back-end developer and my design skills are admittedly very weak. There’s a

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I’m a back-end developer and my design skills are admittedly very weak. There’s a CSS background effect that I really like a lot and I’m wondering if anyone could give me a general idea as to how one would achieve it? If you look at a sites like sourcebits.com or youtube.com, the background looks sort of gray and has a texture almost like a sheet of high-quality stationary. How are they achieving this effect?

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  1. Editorial Team

    CSS used by SourceBits:

    body {
background: #8D9698 url('../images/body-by-bg.jpg') repeat fixed 0 0;
}

    SourceBits background link:
    http://www.sourcebits.com/images/body-by-bg.jpg

    CSS used by YouTube:

    body {
background: no-repeat url(//s.ytimg.com/yt/imgbin/www-refreshbg-vflC3wnbM.png) 0 0;
background-color: #EBEBEB;
background-repeat: repeat;
}

    YouTube background link:
    http://s.ytimg.com/yt/imgbin/www-refreshbg-vflC3wnbM.png

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