background-position: center center; background-repeat: repeat; repeat-x; repeat-y;
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'> <head> <title>background-position</title> <style type='text/css'> div { width: 100px; height: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); margin: 4px; float: left; background-image: url('star.png'); } div#repeat { background-position: center center; background-repeat: repeat; } div#repeat-single { background-position: center; background-repeat: repeat; } div#repeat-x-control { background-repeat: repeat-x; } div#repeat-x { background-position: center center; background-repeat: repeat-x; } div#repeat-x-single { background-position: center; background-repeat: repeat-x; } div#repeat-y-control { background-repeat: repeat-y; } div#repeat-y { background-position: center center; background-repeat: repeat-y; } div#repeat-y-single { background-position: center; background-repeat: repeat-y; } br { clear: both; } </style> </head> <body> <div id='repeat-control'></div> <div id='repeat'></div> <div id='repeat-single'></div> <br /> <div id='repeat-x-control'></div> <div id='repeat-x'></div> <div id='repeat-x-single'></div> <br /> <div id='repeat-y-control'></div> <div id='repeat-y'></div> <div id='repeat-y-single'></div> </body> </html>