Is there a way to set the <body> tag styling for background-image: url(filename.jpg); to be sized 100% for height and width? Right now the individual I'm doing...
Thanks Mike and Gary : That's the problem, I can do all kinds of things with the background image stuff using the common styling attributes I know about except...
... Look at the source. I did it different. But it works, and works well. <div id='Layer1' style='position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; width: 100%;...
Mike Welsh
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Jun 8, 2005 5:33 am
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... It's always possible to get rid of scroll bars. Use overflow: hidden http://www.quirksmode.org/css/overflow.html...
Mike Welsh
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Jun 8, 2005 6:03 am
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Yes you are right Mike. What I should have said (but alas did not) was "if your content is too big and you can't avoid the need for the page to...
... It should be the background. It worked fine in all browsers that I tested it in....
Mike Welsh
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Jun 9, 2005 4:49 am
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Tried it again in bith FF and IE. I can just barely see the multi-colored line at the top in IE. It's probably there in FF but I just can't see it. The...
... Thats not right. I can see it fine in FF. Safari as well. IE did it as well, if I remember correctly....
Mike Welsh
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Jun 9, 2005 5:45 am
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The gray background is what FF and IE are set to use if there is no background color or image called out. I'm not overriding web colors are images. Just...
... Thats not normal. I can't fix it (no Windows box here, just yet) http://yomcat.geek.nz/french_shot is what it should look like. And does, in everything...
Mike Welsh
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Jun 9, 2005 7:18 am
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... Thats interesting, it works in Safari, it works in Firefox (tested on Win and Lin) but it isn't working on IE 6 on XP Sp2. Hopefully one of the updates for...
This is what I had to do to the code to get it to work in both FF and IE after downloading the bg.jpg file : <div id='layer1' style='position:absolute;...
... Thats all good, its the next bit thats a problem. The div I had was a container div. So <!-- TEXT GOES HERE --> is where your page starts. I think thats...
Mike Welsh
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Jun 10, 2005 6:11 am
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Mike ; It looks ok now thanks to the use of your code you sent earlier. I'm still waiting for the individual who wants the "no scroll bars" to check it out in...
Hi Don : I was just sending Mike what I had to do to his code on his page to get his page to work with that nice 1024x1 image in my FF and IE. We were kinda...
... Yea. It is possible to have some stupidly small screen resolutions. Its possible to make it from 640x480 up, which would get basically all the users of the...
Mike Welsh
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Jun 10, 2005 8:29 pm
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... TIFF is not good. JPG is good. PNGs are good if you want transparency, GIFs if you want them to look bad (or have a small number of colours)...
Mike Welsh
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Jun 10, 2005 8:29 pm
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Hi gang, I know I've been gone for ages... Haven't updated my site in ages! Anyway, now I'm tackling a major overhaul and wondering if it's time I wrap my...
... sitepoint.com has a couple of books available on CSS, and you can download a few chapters free to see if they will be helpful. Chapter 13 of Paul's book...
What exactly are the differences between these: <DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ".//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> and <DOCTYPE html...
No templates, but a lot a good CSS info,.tips, problems & solutions at this site: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=53 Good place to get...
... One is HTML, the other is XHTML. I wrote a tute explaining the differences: http://htmlfixit.com/tutes/tutorial_XHTML_and_HTML_-_The_differences.shtml ...
Definitely start with w3schools as Franki suggests, but when you've got your head around the concepts and want to look at "the extreme" have a look at...
... The reason I asked the question is that Stuart Langridge, in his new book, DHTML Utopia, makes the assertion that: "DHTML is actually a combination of...
... I use XHTML transitional in the doctype, but try to conform as best as possible to XHTML strict. As a result our site works in everything newer then NS4...
