Changing Background Image with CSS3 Animations

Question

Why this isn't working? What am I doing wrong?

CSS

@-webkit-keyframes test {
  0% {
    background-image: url('frame-01.png');
  }
  20% {
    background-image: url('frame-02.png');
  }
  40% {
    background-image: url('frame-03.png');
  }
  60% {
    background-image: url('frame-04.png');
  }
  80% {
    background-image: url('frame-05.png');
  }
  100% {
    background-image: url('frame-06.png');
  }
}

div {
  float: left;
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
  -webkit-animation-name: test;
  -webkit-animation-duration: 10s;
  -webkit-animation-iteration-count: 2;
  -webkit-animation-direction: alternate;
  -webkit-animation-timing-function: linear;
}

DEMO

http://jsfiddle.net/hAGKv/

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Updated for 2020: Yes, it can be done! Here's how.

Snippet demo:

#mydiv{ animation: changeBg 1s infinite; width:143px; height:100px; }
@keyframes changeBg{
   0%,100%  {background-image: url("https://i.stack.imgur.com/YdrqG.png");}
   25% {background-image: url("https://i.stack.imgur.com/2wKWi.png");}
   50% {background-image: url("https://i.stack.imgur.com/HobHO.png");}
   75% {background-image: url("https://i.stack.imgur.com/3hiHO.png");}
}

<div id='mydiv'></div>

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Background image [isn't a property that can be animated][1] - you can't tween the property.

Original Answer: (still a good alternative) Instead, try laying out all the images on top of each other using position:absolute, then animate the opacity of all of them to 0 except the one you want repeatedly.