Re: AAGH! CSS/DHTML and TWO backgrounds!

HI, Ellen,

> I nearly lost my mind with the problem of two backgrounds.

LOL - how WELL I know THAT feeling (twitch, twitch)!

[snip]

heh. It's called "tunnel vision", lol; has a similar problem, until I
called 'uncle', and asked the list for help.

> First I tried styles  with no-repeat specs and specialized browser
> stylesheets.  I was rewarded with fire-breathing frustration.  So oh
> well.

lol

> The solution: the company standard background is in the body tag as
> html.  The golden guy is a background image in a table tag of a
> layout table which is nested inside the larger layout table.  (yes,
> gross)  The golden guy table background is a big image, which you
> didn't want for loading times.  But using Fireworks compression I
got
> the 547x2020 gif down to 3k.  Not too bad.  The image repeats
> eventually vertically, but that's ok-- the pages are way too long in
> monotonous text anyway.

ok... so a 547x2020 gif at 3k is 'not too bad'?! STREWTH! I'd say it
was next to miraculous, and I use F3 as well! Well done!

> So I ended up not using styles at all, just a nested table with an
> IE-only tag of <table background="guy.gif">  Netscape users will
have
> to go without.  If there are better solutions, I'm listening.

Table backgrounds are a problem, there's no doubt, and linked css just
doesn't wortk in NN anyhow (afaik - ymmv), but in this case, it
matters little, as the audience for this are all IE5+ users.

In any event, we have a solution, usingcss - please see my previous
post!

Thanks, by the way, for replying - it's much obliged!


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