How can I display just a portion of an image in HTML/CSS?

Answer 1

One way to do it is to set the image you want to display as a background in a container (td, div, span etc) and then adjust background-position to get the sprite you want.

This technique is shown on the following url:

http://www.guistuff.com/css/css_imagetech1.html

Answer 2

A List Apart should be in anyones list of sites to visit with HTML/CSS/JS problems:

Here's one way of doing sprites, and here's another using JS.