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HTML

<div class="my-div">Lorem ipsum</div>

CSS

.my-div {
    width: 300px;
    height: 200px;
    background-size: 100%;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-image: linear-gradient(to right, black 0%,white 100%), url('https://static.pexels.com/photos/54624/strawberry-fruit-red-sweet-54624-medium.jpeg');
    
}