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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 10/05/2026

Wrote an article on this three and a half years ago, happy to see it finally making into browsers 😅 12daysofweb.dev/2022/css-ima...

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CSS image() | 12 Days of Web

The working draft for image() proposes new features to enhance the capabilities of background-image declarations.

IntentToShip@intenttoship.dev

Blink: Intent to Prototype: CSS image function

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Blink: Intent to Prototype: CSS image function

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Niklas @nilaallj.se · 10/05/2026

It only seems to be for single color values so far, which honestly isn’t that useful since they also work in gradient functions nowadays. Hopefully they will start working on the other capabilities as well, such as sprites and fallback colors for images.

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Christoph Päper @crissov.de · 11/05/2026

I don’t know what exactly Blink is going to prototype, but it’s possible it will just be the recently reduced Level-4 scope, i.e. just image(<color>).

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Ana Tudor @anatudor.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The `filter()` function allows reducing the opacity of an image in `background-image` bsky.app/profile/anat... It has been in the spec for ages, Safari has supported this for over a decade. Still no Chrome or Firefox. 😭

Ana Tudor@anatudor.bsky.social

The filter() function could help us eliminate nesting when we want to apply a filter (opacity, grain, blur, selective desaturation...) *only* to a background/ border image, not the entire element. If you're interested in this, please 🙏 vote for it github.com/web-platform... #CSS

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