Re: HTML3.2 - background images and edge-to-edge tables

by EmeraldSpirit <emerald_spirit(at)yahoo.com>

 Date:  Mon, 21 May 2001 16:28:33 -0700 (PDT)
 To:  hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
 In-Reply-To:  isgwds00000
  todo: View Thread, Original
It should work.  I took your code... added in the
margin width fix to the body tag and the table goes
all the way to the edge of the browser.  What is it
you are seeing that makes you say it doesn't work?


--- Roger Stenning <roger(at)isgwds.enterprise-plc.com>
wrote:
> Kimiko -
> 
> Thanks for the swift reply (almost by return, no
> less); nice to see
> another person involved in Role Playing, even (dig,
> dig!) if it is
> LARP, lol!
> 
> > At 10:20 PM 5/21/01 +0100, Roger Stenning wrote:
> > >Does anyone know of a way, without the use of
> frames, of either
> > >avoiding the off-the-edge background image
> run-off for all screen
> > >sizes, or, failing that, of getting the tables to
> run to the very
> edge
> > >of the screen?
> >
> > I have created a similar table for a navbar,
> although it ended up in
> a
> > frame, but would work without a frame. To get the
> table to flush
> with the
> > edges use the following in your body tag
> >
> > <.body bgcolor="#333333"
> background="images/marb078.jpg"
> leftmargin="0"
> > topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" .>
> >
> > That should cover for both IE and NN.
> 
> Sorry, it didn't work. Thanks for the idea, though.
> 
> For every one's benefit, I've uploaded an example
> to:
> 
> http://website.lineone.net/~g1liw/mcon/problem.html
> 
> This illustrates the problem, probably better than I
> can put it into
> words here.
> 
> If you reply off list, please copy the reply to the
> list as well; I'd
> obviously like eveyone to benefit from my woes!
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Roger Stenning
> Proprietor,
> Intelligent Web Design Services
> http://iws.n3.net/
> (PGP public key available on request)
>
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