[thelist] bgproperties="fixed" in a table cell?

Mon Aug 21 15:23:30 CDT 2000

great thanks for that, you just proved my point to MY boss!!!

I am now gunna gloat like hell tommorow!!

----- Original Message -----
From: Aylard JA (James) <jaylard at equilon.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 6:26 PM
Subject: RE: [thelist] bgproperties="fixed" in a table cell?

> Keni,
>
> > I know bgproperties="fixed" does not work for Netscape, but will it work
> for
> > IE in a table?
>
> The proprietary "bgproperties" attribute, introduced with IE3, only
> applies to the <body> element. In point of fact, however, this attribute
is
> totally unnecessary since the W3C style sheet background property (more
> specifically, the background-attachment property) achieves the exact same
> thing. It even works in IE3 if applied as part of the shorthand
"background"
> property (IE3 doesn't support the standalone background-attachment
> property).
> To answer your specific question, no, IE will not support a "fixed"
> background on tables, even using CSS (the CSS1 spec does specify that
> background-attachment applies to all elements, however not even Mozilla
M17,
> in my tests, correctly handles a fixed background on a table -- in fact,
M17
> seems to botch CSS table backgrounds altogether).
>
> hth,
> James Aylard
> jaylard at equilon.com
>
>
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