# Setting images as background-image in css/sass

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/setting-images-as-background-image-in-css-sass/48262>\
**Category:** support\
**Tags:** images, sass, dart-sass\
**Created:** [February 13, 2024, 9:21am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/setting-images-as-background-image-in-css-sass/48262 "2024-02-13T09:21:19Z")\
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Thanks @jmooring. I’ve now got it working.

I was hoping it would be able to fetch the image just by calling `"vars" site.Params.style` as per the [reference](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/initialize-sass-variables-from-hugo-templates/42053). But I guess the key part re images is the following:

```auto
{{ $test_image := "" }}
{{ with site.Params.style.test_image }}
  {{ with resources.Get . }}
      {{ $test_image = .RelPermalink }}
  {{ end }}
{{ end }}

```

This is where the image is bound to the variable.

@jmooring what would be the preferred way to store and use images? Using the above method with /assets or simply compressing and image then placing it in /static/images and calling it from static?

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