Title: Background Positioning
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Background Positioning

 *  [redhead412](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redhead412/)
 * (@redhead412)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-positioning/)
 * This may seem like a rather simple question, but for some reason I can not figure
   this out. On my website, I have a large header, and the main content begins on
   top of it, and then is supposed to fade into my background which is just some
   simple lines and a color. For some reason though, the background overlaps the
   header image, therefore covering up part of it. I want my background to start
   at the bottom of the header image. I’ve tried using background-position: 0 -220px,
   but that doesn’t do anything. How do I move the starting postion of the background
   in #content down?
 * [http://stangerdesigns.com/bhc/](http://stangerdesigns.com/bhc/)

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 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-positioning/#post-1521957)
 * add a top margin to it.
 * margin-top: 220px
 *  Thread Starter [redhead412](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redhead412/)
 * (@redhead412)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-positioning/#post-1521997)
 * Right now I have margin-top: -220px to move all the content down, but I need 
   the background to go further down than that…here’s what I have
 * #content {
    margin-top:-220px; font-size: 1.2em; background: url(‘images/bgleft.
   jpg’); background-position: 0 -320px; }
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-positioning/#post-1521999)
 * oh…well a negative value would move the image up….try a positive to move it down
 * background-position: 0 220px;
 *  Thread Starter [redhead412](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redhead412/)
 * (@redhead412)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-positioning/#post-1522001)
 * no luck 🙁
 * does it matter that the background image is only 1 px tall…it shouldn’t I don’t
   think?!
 * Also I’m using the default wordpress theme to create this on.
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-positioning/#post-1522003)
 * well, could just add the image in it’s own class where you need it?
 * <div id=”content”>
    <div class=”contentImage”>
 * stuff
 * </div>
    </div>
 * the just style the image onto .contentImage in the css?
 *  Thread Starter [redhead412](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redhead412/)
 * (@redhead412)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-positioning/#post-1522107)
 * Thanks for the help 😀 I couldn’t seem to get that method to work either, but
   I figured out another trick.

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 * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)
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