On this page an 800px x 2px background image has been added with css (embedded on this page). The text has a margin-left of 150px to make sure it clears the left side coloring on the gif.
The addition we made to the css on this page was to set the background-repeat to background-repeat: repeat-y , which tells the browser to repeat only down the y (high) axis and not the x (wide) axis
We can do this on the x access as well using another image, let's see that