Html Image Element vs Css Background Image Practical Guide

• Html Image Element vs Css Background Image
• When to use image element?
• When to use CSS Background Image?

Html Image Element vs Css Background Image

Following are good practices of Html Image Element vs CSS Background Image.

When to use image element?

• Use <img> when image needs to be indexed by search engine (google, bing, duckduckgo)
• Use <img> if you allow people to take print out of page.
• Use <img> when looking performance improvement of animations over a background.
• Use <img> If image is not too small ( not iconic images ).
• Use <img> when you need alt and title attribute.

When to use CSS Background Image?

• Use CSS background image if the image is not part of the content
• Use CSS background-image if you don’t want to allow people to take print your page with images.
• Use CSS background image when doing image-replacement of text like (paragraphs,headers, etc.)
• Use CSS background image if you need to improve download times, such as using CSS sprites.
• Use CSS background image which we can play with CSS3.
• Use CSS background image when Repeating Images (icons, etc.).
• Use CSS background image as i will use them based on these reasons.
• Use CSS background image with background-size:cover in order to stretch a background image to fill its entire window.