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Old September 10th, 2005, 08:29 AM
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Exclamation Help! Table Background?
I'm having a big problem with my tables. I need to span a background image across multiple cells, so they all have one uniform background. It works fine in firefox, but W3C disagrees, and I get an error when trying to view the site in IE. It doesn't seem to like the
Code:
<background>
tag. I've read that the
Code:
<style>
tag can work with fewer errors. Any suggestions?
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Old September 10th, 2005, 08:38 AM
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The style tag doesn't seem to work, either.
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Old September 10th, 2005, 08:47 AM
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Well the style attribute, like so for instance...

<table style="background:url(somepic.png) scroll no-repeat center center">

...should work, provided the inner elements of your table (tr and td tags etc.) have a transparent or non-existent background.

http://www.aboutjm.com/links/CSS_Guide/properties/background.html

There are many things that could go wrong - however. The outcome depends on a lot of unpredictable things. Hard to say without the example...
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Old September 10th, 2005, 08:50 AM
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When I use the style tag, the image doesn't show up at all in IE. Ahhhhhh...
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Old September 10th, 2005, 08:54 AM
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Is there something I'm missing? Here's my code:
Code:
  <table style="background: url(/images/bg2.jpg)" width="500" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
 	<tr>
 	  <td colspan="2"><div align="center"><img src="images/banner3.jpg" width="900" height="135"></div></td>
 	</tr>
 	<tr background="images/bg2.jpg">
 	  <td width="450"><div align="center"><a href="mental/mental.htm" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('mental','','images/mental_reverse.jpg',1)"><img src="images/mental.jpg" alt="For Mental Health Professionals" name="mental" width="303" height="205" border="0"></a></div>	    </td>
 	  <td width="450"><div align="center">
 		<p><a href="other/other.htm" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('other','','images/other_reverse.jpg',1)"><img src="images/other.jpg" alt="For All Other Clients" name="other" width="303" height="205" border="0"></a></p>
 	  </div></td>
 	</tr>
   </table>
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Without seeing your example all we can do are useless guessing. A url to the project is needed (don't make the url an active link).
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Old September 10th, 2005, 08:57 AM
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webpsychdesigns dot com...it works fine in firefox but not IE. I haven't updated the server code yet, but the previews from dreamweaver are showing IE problems.
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I think you need to get rid of the leading slash on

...url(/images/bg2.jpg)...

to make it work locally, (even on dreamweaver).

Try that first.
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Also, use something like <table style="background-image:url('images/blah.gif'); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:top left;">...</table> accordingly.

This should work in Mozilla and IE
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