What is a tiled Background?

A tiled background is an image designed to fill a background like tiles cover a floor by repeating itself until the background is full. They tile from left to right and top to bottom.

You can use tiled backgrounds in e-mails, web pages, video, presentations and more. Most programs will allow you to specify a background image. A tiled background can also be set as the desktop background in most Mac OS and Windows versions.