[thelist] Stretchy left column background

[Mark Howells]

As height="100%" is not valid HTML code, you'll find that it won't work in
newer browsers, such as IE6.

Using a background image is a much better idea. It's best to make the
background image in GIF format (to keep the file size down) and with a
dimension of around 64px for height (to keep the venetian blind effect in
NN4.x to a minimum). You can make the image quite narrow - say 100px wide or
so - by using background-repeat:repeat-y in the CSS declaration for your
body tag. That way, the image won't repeat sideways, even if you're browsing
with a wide monitor.

Regards
Mark Howells
Working in a Winter Wonderland
http://www.mark.ac

> For IE, but not working in NN, you can do a height=100% on the
> cell/table.
> If you want it to work in both,  I use a background for the
> first however many pixels, than another few thousands pixels of
> white.  Then, set that as my page background.
>
>> Original problem:
>> the column background image should (ideally) keep
>> going until it meets the horizontal blue bar at the footer.
>>
>> URL: http://64.224.99.12/index.php