Re: Netscape messes up background images in tables

by "Steve Antonio" <santonio(at)delanet.com>

 Date:  Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:19:46 -0400
 To:  <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
 References:  runic
  todo: View Thread, Original
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> > IE4/5 and Dreamweaver handle it properly, but Netscape 4+ (I'm using
4.7)
> > creates a truly HORRIBLE mess by insisting on tiling the background
image
> > in every cell, which is not what I've asked it to do. I've tried moving
> > the image out of the TD and into the TABLE tag  [snipped]

[snipped]
> 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 to
> prevent the image from loading into every cell, and allow the image to be
> displayed as a single background for the table.

I know this isn't the problem, but I was just wondering if you guys are
aware that "background" is not a legal attribute for the "TD" tag according
to W3C's HTML 4.0 spec.- just FYI  : )

Steve
santonio(at)delanet.com

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