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:before and background-image... should it work?

I've got a div and apply :before and :after an image as content. That works perfectly. Now I would need to apply a background image so it does repeat as the div resizes, but it does not seem to work. Is background image on :before and :after supposed to be working?

The current code:

HTML:

<div id="videos-part">test</div>

CSS:

#videos-part{
    background-color: #fff;
    height: 127px;
    width: 764px;
    margin: -6px 0 -1px 18px;
    position: relative;
}
#videos-part:before{
    width: 16px;
    content: " ";
    background-image: url(/img/border-left3.png);
    position: absolute;
    left: -16px;
    top: -6px;
}
Solution

  • @michi; define height in your before pseudo class

    CSS:

    #videos-part:before{
    width: 16px;
    content: " ";
    background-image: url(/img/border-left3.png);
    position: absolute;
    left: -16px;
    top: -6px;
    height:20px;
}