From the course: CSS: Images

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- [Instructor] Knowing you can use custom paths to clip an image, the next question is usually, "Can I use text to clip images as well?" The answer is you can, if you use the SVG method, but then you have text inside an SVG. On the web, it's better to have text in a proper text element, in a document, like I have here. This is an H1 with some text. So, to make that knockout effect, where you see the background image inside the glyphs themselves, we need to actually use a background image, and then use the background-clip property. Background-clip was originally meant to position the background image in relation to the box. You remember we looked at this previously when we looked at positioning images, well this allows you to control how you clip the images relative to the box, either border box, padding box, or content box. But in addition, we also have background clip text, which allows you to use the text as the…

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