[thelist] Table Background Question

[Jason Morehead]

>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?

ah yes, netscape's background bug.  i ran into that just yesterday 
with a site i'm working on.  you want the background to show through 
the tables (but don't want the nested tables to have their own 
backgrounds), you could specify a background for each of the nested 
tables, using a transparent .gif.  backgrounds inside nested tables 
will override the background of the table those tables are nested in. 
unfortunately, the same can't be said for using background colors 
inside a nested table.  does that make sense?

it's buggy and bloated, i know, but it does work.

jason
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