How to change the background image using jQuery ?

Last Updated : 03 Aug, 2021

To change the background image using jQuery, you can use the jQuery CSS() method. For this, the whole property value is specified using the url() functional notation. Approach: Suppose we have an image URL stored in a variable and then use css() method to change the value of background image. Below example illustrates the above approach: Example:

html

 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>
    jQuery Changing background-image CSS Property
    </title>
    <style>
        .box {
            width: 700px;
            height: 220px;
            border: 2px solid black;
            background-repeat: no-repeat;
            background-image: url(
"https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/javascript-768x256.png");
        }
        h1{
            color:green;
        }
    </style>
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js"></script>
    <script>
        $(document).ready(function() {
            // Change background image of a div by clicking on the button
            $("button").click(function() {
                var imageUrl = 
"https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/jquery-banner-768x256.png";
                $(".box").css("background-image", "url(" + imageUrl + ")");
            });
        });
    </script>
</head>

<body>
    <center>
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    <h3>
    jQuery Changing background-image CSS Property
    </h3>
    <div class="box"></div>
    <p>
        <button type="button">
            Change Background Image
        </button>
    </p>
    </center>
</body>

</html>

Output:

Before Clicking on the button:

After Clicking on the button:

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