The correct HTML for inserting a background image into an HTML element is to use the HTML style attribute along with the CSS background-image property.
Let’s take a look at a simple example.
Let’s say I have the following HTML:
Some text in the div.
As you can see in the code above, our main div will have a background image someImg.png. And then inside of that div will be a paragraph with some text.
Example of the correct HTML for inserting a background image
In this simple example, we will just have a standard HTML div and insert a background image to it using the style attribute with the background-image property. We will then have some text in the div that will show up on top of the background image.
We will set some style attributes for the background image so that it can display the way we want.
This text should show over the background image.
This text has a white background.
And finally, here is the above code in action for you to see how the background image will work.
This text should show over the background image.
This text has a white background.
Hopefully this article has been useful for you to understand what is the correct HTML for inserting a background image is.
