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Background images

How does one keep a background image from tiling? Mainly I'm looking for in a table cell, but a for a main background image would work as well.

chewymon

As long as it is listed as <body background="some.gif"> it will tile. The following line is from the html quick reference.

BACKGROUND="..."--Specifies an image to be tiled as background

chewymon

My HTML Sourcebook by Dr. Ian Graham says the same thing about using BACKGROUND in <TD>

Geos

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Hmmm...so the only way to have a background not tile is to make the image's canvas large enough to cover what I want.

TTom

Yep.

Tom

Mark Franz

I believe you can use a style sheet reference to locate a background image, but then again, the only way I know of to NOT have the image repeat, is either locate the image and Zindex it to 0, or put it in a <td> tag and layer it, (NN)

Mark

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Mark Franz

Hooligan, just to follow up on what you propose, you can also locate the background image in the style sheet by using the background-position: attribute, i.e. with your example;

<style type="text/css">

</style>

You can also specify percentages, length, left, right, center and bottom.

Reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#background-position

Mark

P.S. The position tag does not work with NN 4+

Geos

ASKER

Any tips on how that would work on a cell?

Mark Franz

yeah, just set the background color or image of the cell either with a style sheet or inside of the cell tag;

<td background="image.gif"> IE only
<td bgcolor="#dd00ff"> All browsers

<td style="background:image.gif"> Again, IE only...

Mark