As was mentioned in another reply, most of the ZDNet sites use a background
graphic in the BODY tag that is very wide (ususally in excess of 1024) so
that it doesn't get tiled horizontally, but very shallow--maybe 2 pixels
high. The color you see on the left is just a portion of this background
GIF, some 108 pixels (if I remember correctly) wide.

It is necessary to do this with a background graphic, if you want the color
to go all the way to the top and to the left in all browsers, because, in
some, notably Netscape, any image applied within the BODY container (not in
the tag itself), or graphic or color within a table cell, there will be a
gap on the top and on the left of some six to nine pixels.


At 05:58 AM 4/13/98 +0000, klam1(at)usa.net wrote:
>  I have been seeing these pages w/tables on the left side of them that
make the page look like it has a frame but not.  So, how do u put a bg
color in only that part on the page in the table then add links over it?  A
example of sorts only is http://www.zdnet.com/ (u can get what I am
basically talking about looking there)

Byron Canfield (http://www.byronc.com)
Art Director, ZDNet AnchorDesk
http://www.anchordesk.com
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