How do I remove background-image in css?

Question

I have a general rule which gives all DIVs a background image.
I have one div (with id='a') which I don't want it to have the background image.
What css rule do I have to give it?

score 372 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 03 '12 at 13:02

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Try:

div#a {
    background-image:none
}

edited Jul 03 '12 at 13:02

answered Sep 22 '09 at 16:17

AnthonyWJones

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Just use `#a {}`. [Don't use element types in selectors unless necessary](http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/htmlcssguide.xml#Type_selectors). – Jezen Thomas Jul 18 '12 at 14:51
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"Avoiding unnecessary ancestor selectors is useful for performance reasons." Not really an issue when you are not Google. – Davor Dec 26 '13 at 16:04
W3C Recommendation on CSS 3 Selectors > Calculating a selector's specificity https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#specificity – TarranJones May 09 '16 at 13:01

score 36 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 22 '09 at 16:17

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div#a {
    background-image: none;
}

answered Sep 22 '09 at 16:17

Ruud

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score 32 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 22 '09 at 16:18

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div#a {
  background-image: none !important;
}

Although the "!important" might not be necessary, because "div#a" has a higher specificity than just "div".

answered Sep 22 '09 at 16:18

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The !important part is not necessary as the declaration with #a is more precise than a declaration of div and therefore this rule will be applied instead of the general div rule. – Ruud Sep 22 '09 at 16:20
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I found !important to be necessary in Chrome – dlchambers Aug 27 '15 at 21:35

score 18 · Answer 4 · edited Oct 15 '12 at 13:59

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div#a {
  background-image: url('../images/spacer.png');
  background-image: none !important;
}

I use a transparent spacer image in addition to the rule to remove the background image because IE6 seems to ignore the background-image: none even though it is marked !important.

edited Oct 15 '12 at 13:59

answered Oct 15 '12 at 13:57

MatthewPearson

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Who cares about IE6 these days. – Rob W Oct 15 '12 at 14:00
-1 Your answer is incorrect. I started IE6, and the `background-image:none;` (with ot without `!important`) works flawlessly. – Rob W Oct 15 '12 at 14:06
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Actually, I care - one of my clients has an isolated network environment with some specific software that hasn't been updated. IE6 is what they have to use. Sad but true :( – Russ Clarke Nov 02 '12 at 11:49
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Have an upvote to mitigate Rob W's downvote. It was quite rude of him to downvote just for backwards compatibility that isn't even a hack, regardless of if he could reproduce it or not – Kavi Siegel Jun 19 '13 at 15:25

score 8 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 27 '13 at 13:40

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Since in css3 one might set multiple background images setting "none" will only create a new layer and hide nothing.

http://www.css3.info/preview/multiple-backgrounds/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#backgrounds

I have not found a solution yet...

answered Jun 27 '13 at 13:40

ItsMe

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I believe "background: none;" will override – circusdei Aug 21 '13 at 20:51

Michał Szymański · Answer 6 · 2018-10-14T14:39:55.177

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When background-image: none !important; have no effect. You can use:

background-size: 0 !important;

edited Oct 14 '18 at 14:39

answered Oct 14 '18 at 14:30

Michał Szymański

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score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 03 '15 at 09:34

background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0, #fff), color-stop(0.5, #fff));
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(center top, #fff 0%, #fff 50%);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(center top, #fff 0%, #fff 50%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#ffffff', endColorstr='#ffffff', GradientType=0);
background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #fff 0%, #fff 50%);

for older browsers.. if you have defined css in some framewokrk.css like select2.css in IE9 background-image: -webkit-gradient etc. and you want it via another .css rewrite with "background-image: none !important" not works. I used same color to color gradient like page background color.

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 22 '09 at 16:30

If your div rule is just div {...}, then #a {...} will be sufficient. If it is more complicated, you need a "more specific" selector, as defined by the CSS specification on specificity. (#a being more specific than div is just single aspect in the algorithm.)

infomasud · Answer 9 · 2022-02-15T15:39:02.867

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HTML :

<div id="a" class="mydiv"></div>

CSS:

div#a {
       background-image:none;
}

Another Way:

div:not(#a) {
     //all rules goes here 
     //add image here
     //div with id a not effected by these rules
   }

Multiple (not pseudo)

   div:not(#a):not(#b):not(#c) {
     //all rules goes here 
     //add image here
     //div with ids not effected with these rules
   }

edited Feb 15 '22 at 15:39

answered Feb 15 '22 at 15:32

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score 0 · Answer 10 · edited Nov 22 '11 at 16:19

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Doesn't this work:

.clear-background{
background-image: none;
}

Might have problems on older browsers...

edited Nov 22 '11 at 16:19

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answered Sep 22 '09 at 16:18

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Aug 21 '13 at 20:49

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Replace the rule you have with the following:

div:not(#a) { // add your bg image here //}

answered Aug 21 '13 at 20:49

circusdei

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