Re[2]: Netscape messes up background images in tables - correction

Hello Donna,

Thursday, October 14, 1999, 2:50:48 PM, you wrote:

DMS> Oops - correction below...

DMS> ----- Original Message -----
DMS> From: Donna M Smillie <dms(at)zetnet.co.uk>

>> Alternatively, if you work with a single table, with the background image
>> specified in the TABLE tag, you would add BACKGROUND="" to every TD tag
DMS> to
>> prevent the image from loading into every cell, and allow the image to be
>> displayed as a single background for the table.

DMS> I'm sure I used that before successfully, but I should also have double
DMS> checked this one before sending my original post, since I've just tried it
DMS> and it doesn't appear to work, at least not in NN4.6.

DMS> So the best way is to use a containing table with the background image, and
DMS> nest one or more tables inside that with the content.

DMS> Sorry about that small piece of misinformation!

It worked!!!!

Huge thanks for your help!

Just for reference, I changed this code:

<table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">
  <tr valign="top"> 
    <td background="images/background3.jpg"> 
      <p align="center"><img src="images/micro.gif" width="532" height="134"></p>
      <table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">
      BLAH BLAH

to this:

<table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">
  <tr valign="top"> 
    <td background="images/background3.jpg"> 
      <p align="center"><img src="images/micro.gif" width="532" height="134"></p>
      <table width="600" background="" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">
      BLAH BLAH

and it fixed the problem, as you can now see at
http://www.runic.com/citybug/micro2.html

Once again, many thanks for such a quick and helpful response!

Best regards,
Martin Eager
Runic Design
mailto:martin(at)runic.com

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