[thelist] table background

Flavia Silveira-Tarzwell (FayeC) fayec at canada.com
Tue Aug 14 18:43:20 CDT 2001


I tried it here and it didn't work...I had to use a transparent gif as
background and then it did work...



Beau Hartshorne wrote:
> 
> Linday's excellent suggestion does work around that pesky Netscape bug. I
> just tested it. Leaving the nested table as background="" stops Netscape
> from retiling the image at each cell. It's true that if you don't use the
> background="" trick, Netscape *will* retile. If you do use the background=""
> trick, Netscape *won't* retile.
> 
> So which trick is better/more effective? The background="" trick or the div
> trick?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Beau




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