Re: Background won't show

Hi Brian,
That was the problem!  It apparently was there all
along.  Once I took out the center attribute (old
style sheet..) it worked fine.  Thank you so much for
your help.
Kef



--- Comharsa <comharsa(at)clara.net> wrote:
> >Ok, I tried what everybody said and still nothing!
> >Now I've taken out the external style sheet and put
> >all the CSS in the heading.  NN is fine (except for
> >the heading still) but IE doesn't show the
> background.
> >  Rather than the CSS, could it have anything to do
> >with the table?  I uploaded another page with the
> same
> >external style sheet, but no table and it looks
> just
> >fine - www.desoto.net/users/wwwkef/ericspage.html -
> so
> >that makes me wonder.  The page I'm having trouble
> >with is www.desoto.net/users/wwwkef/validate.html
> >Thanks for all your help.
> 
> I've had another look at your css attributes and
> think I know what the
> problem may be. You have a couple of entries for
> body in there and one of
> them includes a position attribute for the
> background of center. NS doesn't
> use that attribute so displays it OK. IE does accept
> it and is consequently
> centering the background image. As it is 1200 pixels
> across you will need to
> have a browser window open at least 1200 wide in
> order to see it as you want
> to.
> 
> As it is, if you are viewing at a lower resolution
> the coloured part of the
> image is off the left hand side of the screen and
> you can only see the white
> part. This makes it appear to be not working when it
> is in fact there.
> Backgrounds don't cause scrollbars so it is not
> obvious that this is
> happening.
> 
> Of course, I may be wrong, but take out the center
> attribute and see if it
> works.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Brian
> comharsa(at)clara.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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