Re: 'Floating' Backgrounds in HTML

by "Cindy Stanley" <stanleysupport(at)prodigy.net>

 Date:  Tue, 3 Aug 1999 22:10:05 -0400
 To:  "Lady Wistfulee" <wistfulee(at)bigplanet.com>,
<hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
  todo: View Thread, Original
>From: Cindy Stanley <stanleysupport(at)prodigy.net>
>You can include an attribute in your body tag for a fixed background:
>bgproperties="fixed"
>This is IE specific. You could also achieve this w/ CSS, but that is
not
>cross-browser compatible either.

From: Lady Wistfulee <wistfulee(at)bigplanet.com>
>What happens to the page if someone has a non-compatible browser such
as
>NN/AOL/IE >3? Is that just ignored, or does it screw up other things?

As far as using the IE specific bgproperties attribute in your body tag,
other browsers just simply ignore this.

As far as browsers that don't support style sheets, the document is
still rendered as a standard HTML document.
--
Cindy K. Stanley

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