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A very common scenario: a CSS background containing an image of text, with an HTML file containing the same text in some sort of standard HTML tag. The HTML is hidden, the background image shows pretty text. This happens every day in post-csszengarden.com-land.

From a philosophical, separation-of-content-presentation-behavior viewpoint, is the CSS background image a piece of content inside a style sheet, which should be presentation only?

I need as many reasons as I can get why the background image is not content lurking in a presentation file. Can anyone help me out? (alternate viewpoints welcome too, if you think background images are indeed content…)

Discuss.