使用背景图像时，您需要明确指定尺寸。如果你事先不知道它们或无法确定它们，这可能是一个严重的问题。

<img />的一个大问题是覆盖。如果我想在我的图像上添加一个CSS内阴影(box-shadow:inset 0 0 5px rgb(0,0,0，.5))怎么办?在本例中，由于<img />不能有子元素，因此需要使用定位并添加等同于无用标记的空元素。

总之，这是一种情境。

关于使用CSS TranslateX/Y(正确的html动画方式)动画图像-如果你做一个Chrome时间轴记录的CSS背景图像被动画和IMG标签被动画，你会发现绘制时间大大缩短了CSS背景图像。

如果您将CSS放在外部文件中，那么将站点中频繁使用的图像(例如头部图像)显示为背景图像通常是很方便的，因为这样您以后就可以灵活地更改图像。

例如，假设你有以下HTML:

<div id="headerImage"></div>

.．.和CSS:

#headerImage {
    width: 200px;
    height: 100px;
    background: url(Images/headerImage.png) no-repeat;
}

几天后，您更改了图像的位置。你所要做的就是更新CSS:

#headerImage {
    width: 200px;
    height: 100px;
    background: url(../resources/images/headerImage.png) no-repeat;
}

否则，您必须在每个HTML文件中更新适当的<img>标记的src属性(假设您没有使用服务器端脚本语言或CMS来自动化该过程)。

另外，如果你不希望用户能够保存图像，背景图像也是有用的(尽管我从来没有需要这样做)。

正确使用IMG

如果您打算使用IMG 人们打印您的页面，您希望在默认情况下包含图像。 -JayTee 当图像具有重要的语义含义时，例如警告图标，使用IMG(带有alt文本)。这确保了图像的含义可以在所有用户代理(包括屏幕阅读器)中传达。

IMG的实用用途

Use IMG plus alt attribute if the image is part of the content such as a logo or diagram or person (real person, not stock photo people). —sanchothefat Use IMG if you rely on browser scaling to render an image in proportion to text size. Use IMG for multiple overlay images in IE6. Use IMG with a z-index in order to stretch a background image to fill its entire window.Note, this is no longer true with CSS3 background-size; see #6 below. Using img instead of background-image can dramatically improve performance of animations over a background.

何时使用CSS背景图像

Use CSS background images if the image is not part of the content. —sanchothefat Use CSS background images when doing image-replacement of text eg. paragraphs/headers. —sanchothefat Use background-image if you intend to have people print your page and you do not want the image to be included by default. —JayTee Use background-image if you need to improve download times, as with CSS sprites. Use background-image if you need for only a portion of the image to be visible, as with CSS sprites. Use background-image with background-size:cover in order to stretch a background image to fill its entire window.

我想再补充两个论点:

An img tag is good if you need to resize the image. E.g. if the original image is 100px by 100 px, and you want it to be 80px by 80px, you can set the CSS width and height of the img tag. I don't know of any good way to do this using background-image. EDIT: This can now also be done with a background-image, using the background-size CSS3 attribute. Using background-image is good when you need to dynamically switch between sprites. E.g. if you have a button image, and you want a separate image displayed when the cursor is hovering over the element, you can use a background image containing both the normal and hover sprites, and dynamically change the background-position.

当我想让它们100%可拉伸时，我使用image而不是background-image，大多数浏览器都支持。