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    <p>It is possible to do this with SVG, though you don't need to do masking, you can just specify the image as a pattern:</p> <pre><code>&lt;defs&gt; &lt;pattern id="img1" patternUnits="userSpaceOnUse" width="600" height="450"&gt; &lt;image xlink:href="daisy-grass-repeating-background.jpg" x="0" y="0" width="600" height="450" /&gt;&lt;!-- Image from http://silviahartmann.com/background-tile/6-grass-meadow-tile.php--&gt; &lt;/pattern&gt; &lt;/defs&gt; </code></pre> <p>Then reference that as the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/pservers.html#Patterns" rel="nofollow noreferrer">fill</a> in your text:</p> <pre><code>&lt;text fill="url(#img1)"&gt; </code></pre> <p>I've done <a href="http://www.boogdesign.com/examples/svg/pattern-fill.svg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">an example</a>, the most painful part was figuring out what <code>patternUnits</code> and <code>patternContentUnits</code> actually did, <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/SVG/Tutorial/Fill_Stroke_and_Gradients#Patterns" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this MDC article was helpful</a>.</p> <p>The text is selectable in Opera and Chrome (and, I presume, Safari) ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶F̶i̶r̶e̶f̶o̶x̶ ̶b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶a̶ ̶<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292498" rel="nofollow noreferrer">l̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶b̶u̶g̶</a> (bug now fixed, expect it to work in Firefox 24 or so). SVG doesn't work in IE (until 9 comes out, anyway) so either don't bother with it or see if you can get VML to do similar things. If you're going to try and build a JavaScript utility to do this a good starting point might be figuring our how to make the above work in <a href="http://raphaeljs.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Raphaël</a>.</p>
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    1. COThank you! That's exactly what I was looking for. I'll take a long good look at what you did and get my feet wet with svg. I'm surprised this effect isn't used more if it's that simple; it's such an obvious limitation in the standard css/html possibilities...
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    2. CO@last-child I think we'll see several SVG features brought into standard HTML/CSS - it's the same rendering engine after all, the code to achieve the effect is already there in most browsers - just like several Canvas features (shadows, transforms) are now part of CSS.
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    3. COVery nice! Thanks!
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