---
title: background-position-x
slug: Web/CSS/background-position-x
translation_of: Web/CSS/background-position-x
---
<div>{{CSSRef}}</div>

<p>El <strong><code>background-position-x</code></strong> propiedad de <a href="/en-US/docs/Web/CSS">CSS</a>  coloca la posicion horizontal inicial por cada imagen de fondo. La posicion es relativa a la posicion de la capa puesta por {{cssxref("background-origin")}}.</p>

<div>{{EmbedInteractiveExample("pages/css/background-position-x.html")}}</div>

<p class="hidden">El recurso para este ejemplo interactivo es almacenado en un repositorio GitHub. Si te gustaría contrubuir al proyecto de ejemplos interactivos, por favor clone <a href="https://github.com/mdn/interactive-examples">https://github.com/mdn/interactive-examples</a> y envianos una solicitud.</p>

<p>The value of this property is overridden by any declaration of the {{cssxref("background")}} or {{cssxref("background-position")}} shorthand properties applied to the element after it.</p>

<h2 id="Syntax" name="Syntax">Syntax</h2>

<pre class="brush: css no-line-numbers notranslate">/* Keyword values */
background-position-x: left;
background-position-x: center;
background-position-x: right;

/* &lt;percentage&gt; values */
background-position-x: 25%;

/* &lt;length&gt; values */
background-position-x: 0px;
background-position-x: 1cm;
background-position-x: 8em;

/* Side-relative values */
background-position-x: right 3px;
background-position-x: left 25%;

/* Multiple values */
background-position-x: 0px, center;

/* Global values */
background-position-x: inherit;
background-position-x: initial;
background-position-x: unset;
</pre>

<p>The <code>background-position-x</code> property is specified as one or more values, separated by commas.</p>

<h3 id="Values">Values</h3>

<dl>
 <dt><code>left</code></dt>
 <dd>Aligns the left edge of the background image with the left edge of the background position layer.</dd>
 <dt><code>center</code></dt>
 <dd>Aligns the center of the background image with the center of the background position layer.</dd>
 <dt><code>right</code></dt>
 <dd>Aligns the right edge of the background image with the right edge of the background position layer.</dd>
 <dt>{{cssxref("&lt;length&gt;")}}</dt>
 <dd>The offset of the given background image's left vertical edge from the background position layer's left vertical edge. (Some browsers allow assigning the right edge for offset).</dd>
 <dt>{{cssxref("&lt;percentage&gt;")}}</dt>
 <dd>The offset of the given background image's horizontal position relative to the container. A value of 0% means that the left edge of the background image is aligned with the left edge of the container, and a value of 100% means that the <em>right</em> edge of the background image is aligned with the <em>right</em> edge of the container, thus a value of 50% horizontally centers the background image.</dd>
</dl>

<h2 id="Formal_definition">Formal definition</h2>

<p>{{cssinfo}}</p>

<h2 id="Formal_syntax">Formal syntax</h2>

{{csssyntax}}

<h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2>

<h3 id="Basic_example">Basic example</h3>

<p>The following example shows a simple background image implementation, with background-position-x and background-position-y used to define the image's horizontal and vertical positions separately.</p>

<h4 id="HTML">HTML</h4>

<pre class="brush: html notranslate">&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</pre>

<h4 id="CSS">CSS</h4>

<pre class="brush: css notranslate">div {
  width: 300px;
  height: 300px;
  background-color: skyblue;
  background-image: url(https://media.prod.mdn.mozit.cloud/attachments/2020/07/29/17350/3b4892b7e820122ac6dd7678891d4507/firefox.png);
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-position-x: center;
  background-position-y: bottom 10px;
}</pre>

<h4 id="Result">Result</h4>

<p>{{EmbedLiveSample('Basic_example', '100%', 300)}}</p>

<h2 id="Specifications" name="Specifications">Specifications</h2>

<table class="standard-table">
 <thead>
  <tr>
   <th scope="col">Specification</th>
   <th scope="col">Status</th>
   <th scope="col">Comment</th>
  </tr>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('CSS4 Backgrounds', '#background-position-longhands', 'background-position-x')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('CSS4 Backgrounds')}}</td>
   <td>Initial specification of longhand sub-properties of {{cssxref("background-position")}} to match longstanding implementations.</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 id="Browser_compatibility" name="Browser_compatibility">Browser compatibility</h2>

<p class="hidden">The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out <a href="https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data">https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data</a> and send us a pull request.</p>

<p>{{Compat("css.properties.background-position-x")}}</p>

<h2 id="See_also" name="See_also">See also</h2>

<ul>
 <li>{{cssxref("background-position")}}</li>
 <li>{{cssxref("background-position-y")}}</li>
 <li>{{cssxref("background-position-inline")}}</li>
 <li>{{cssxref("background-position-block")}}</li>
 <li><a href="/en-US/docs/CSS/Multiple_backgrounds" title="CSS/Multiple backgrounds">Using multiple backgrounds</a></li>
</ul>