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

Hi folks;

Several times in the past, the membership of this list have provided
invaluable help in resolving problems I've had; let's hope that this
is another such time!

OK; I have a client who requires that his site be visible to as many
browsers as possible; to my mind, this means HTML3.2, and no frames;
instead, I'm intending to control the layout using (nested) tables.

However, I have a problem; the screen width must range from probably
640x480 through, at the highest, 1024x768. The background image, which
blends from one colour on the left, to another on the right quarter,
must be visible, whatever the resolution size of the visitor's screen.
While I can implement a background image in the body tag, in smaller
screen sizes, the blending is not even visible, having run off the
edge of the screen, losing the right edge of the 1024 x 5 graphic. I
thought I cound get around this by using tables, by inserting a simple
100 x 5 blended graphic, and using percentages, rather than pixel
dimensions. However, even before trying this, I noticed that the
tables do not run along the very edge of the screen; instead, there's
a gap, and to preserve the look required, I need to eliminate the gap.

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?

All help will, of course, be very gratefully received!

Best regards,

Roger Stenning
Proprietor,
Intelligent Web Design Services
http://iws.n3.net/
(PGP public key available on request)
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