[thelist] Table Background Question

Jamie Madden jamie at bayou.com
Wed Nov 8 08:47:12 CST 2000


Use a one pixel transparent .gif as the background for each table cell and 
the problem will go away.

jamie

At 02:36 PM 11/8/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Hey Web Gurus, mind if I ask a simple ques?
>
>I have a large 800x600 background image and I put it as the background of 
>a large table and then made a number of nested tables to position the 
>pictures and text where I want them over the background.
>
>It looks great in IE, but in Netscape 4.X the background image is repeated 
>in each nested table making the whole thing rather screwy looking with the 
>background image starting over in multiple places withing the large table.
>Why is Netscape doing this, and is there a way around it?
>
>I can't just make the background image the background of the html page 
>because I don't want it to tile.  I have tables outside the main large 
>table, tiling colors to expand with larger browsers.
>
>Thanks in advance for help on this!!
>
>adam
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