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1. Backgrounds
2. background-clip

Backgrounds

background-clip

Utilities for controlling the bounding box of an element's background.

| Class | Styles | | --- | --- | | bg-clip-border | background-clip: border-box; | | bg-clip-padding | background-clip: padding-box; | | bg-clip-content | background-clip: content-box; | | bg-clip-text | background-clip: text; |

Examples

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Basic example

Use the bg-clip-border, bg-clip-padding, and bg-clip-content utilities to control the bounding box of an element's background:

bg-clip-border

bg-clip-padding

bg-clip-content

<div class="border-4 bg-indigo-500 bg-clip-border p-3"></div><div class="border-4 bg-indigo-500 bg-clip-padding p-3"></div><div class="border-4 bg-indigo-500 bg-clip-content p-3"></div>

Cropping to text

Use the bg-clip-text utility to crop an element's background to match the shape of the text:

Hello world

<p class="bg-linear-to-r from-pink-500 to-violet-500 bg-clip-text text-5xl font-extrabold text-transparent ...">  Hello world</p>

Responsive design

Prefix a background-clip utility with a breakpoint variant like md: to only apply the utility at medium screen sizes and above:

<div class="bg-clip-border md:bg-clip-padding ...">  <!-- ... --></div>

Learn more about using variants in the variants documentation .

On this page

• Quick reference

• Examples

  • Basic example

  • Cropping to text

  • Responsive design

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