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I have a feeling this won't be possible, but thought I'd ask anyway.
<body> //body uses 'back' background
<div id="div1"> //div1 uses 'front' background
<div id="child1"> //child1: no backgrounds, so shows 'front' background
</div>
</div>
</body>
body element uses a background image. (I'll call it the back background image)div1 uses a different background image (I'll call it the front background image), so the front background image covers over the main background image.child1 that doesn't use any background images, so it just shows the background image of its parent i.e. it shows the front background. I would like child1 to use the background of body and not the background of its parent div1. Because of the nature of the back background (it's a drawing, not a repeating pattern), I can't just apply the back background image to child1. I actually need a way to make a hole in div1's background so that child1 gets the back background image as its background, and not its parent's background.
So my question is: is there a way a div can inherit its grandparent's background, as opposed to its parent's background?
If this isn't possible with CSS, I'm open to javascript solutions.
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This would be with using javascript and jQuery:
CSS
body {
background: url("Background 1");
}
#div1 {
background: url("Background 2");
}
#child1 {
background: url("Background 1");
}
JS
$(function() {
function positionBackground() {
var myChild1 = $("#child1");
myChild1.css({
backgroundPosition : "-" + myChild1.offset().left + "px -" + myChild1.offset().top + "px"
});
}
positionBackground();
$(window).resize(positionBackground);
});
Here is the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/gMK9G/
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