repeat css background image a set number of times

Question

is there a way to set the number of times a background image repeats with css?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what originally motivated this question, but I found it searching for a way to make sure only an integral number of copies of a background image appears (i.e. do not crop the final member of a repeated set of background images.) That can be achieved via the background-repeat: space property.