Many of us have cut our teeth using the CSS back­ground-image prop­er­ty to do a wide vari­ety of things. To many, it’s like an old friend, but it’s one we should con­sid­er say­ing good­bye to.

The real prob­lem isn’t the CSS background-image prop­er­ty itself. Rather it is that it’s been used in places where it real­ly should­n’t be, such as for the main CTA hero image or for UI images.

Used improp­er­ly, background-image can be an anti-pat­tern. Are there legit use cas­es for background-image ? Of course.

