Positioning background image, adding padding [duplicate]

Question

I'd like to add a background to a div, position right center, but!, have some padding to the image. The div has padding for the text, so I want to indent the background a little. probably makes most sense w/ example:

http://jsbin.com/umuvud/edit#javascript,html,live

Thanks!

Answer 1

Updated Answer:

It's been commented multiple times that this is not the correct answer to this question, and I agree. Back when this answer was written, IE 9 was still new (about 8 months old) and many developers including myself needed a solution for <= IE 9. IE 9 is when IE started supporting background-origin. However, it's been over six and a half years, so here's the updated solution which I highly recommend over using an actual border. In case < IE 9 support is needed. My original answer can be found below the demo snippet. It uses an opaque border to simulate padding for background images.

#hello {   padding-right: 10px;   background-color:green;   background: url("https://placehold.it/15/5C5/FFF") no-repeat scroll right center #e8e8e8;   background-origin: content-box; }

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Original Answer:

you can fake it with a 10px border of the same color as the background:

http://jsbin.com/eparad/edit#javascript,html,live

#hello {    border: 10px solid #e8e8e8;    background-color: green;    background: url("http://www.costascuisine.com/images/buttons/collapseIcon.gif")                no-repeat scroll right center #e8e8e8; } 

Answer 2

this is actually pretty easily done. You're almost there, doing what you've done with background-position: right center;. What is actually needed in this case is something very much like that. Let's convert these to percentages. We know that center=50%, so that's easy enough. Now, in order to get the padding you wanted, you need to position the background like so: background-position: 99% 50%.

The second, and more effective way of going about this, is to use the same background-position idea, and just use background-position: 400px (width of parent) 50%;. Of course, this method requires a static width, but will give you the same thing every time.

Method 1 (99% 50%)
Method 2 (400px 50%)