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

Hi Kimono (again!) -

> I've been gaming since the late 70s, its just recently that I went
LARPing.
> Played many others and even now play AD&D 3rd ed.

Heh. Check out my personal site, www.the-isg.co.uk (NOT updated
recently, and needds a shedload of work on it, before you say so,
lol)!

> >Sorry, it didn't work. Thanks for the idea, though.
>
> Roger, should have explained further. For the table idea to work you
will
> need the above, AND you will need to chop up the images into two
pieces.
>
> The left image is your yellow color, and goes in the main (left)
table cell
> as a background image (or just use bgcolor to match and forget the
image as
> it seems to be one solid color).

If I can't get away with a single background image, that's what I was
thinking as well, but the problem of up-to-the-edge-of-the-page tables
is still a problem, writ large. I'm beginning to think there's no real
solution to this at HTML3.2, although I'd LOVE to be proved wrong.

> The far right table cell gets your orange slide of colors as a
background
> image.
>
> Example:
[snip]
> The above will keep your orangy colors at the far right, while your
left
> side will expand or contract as you need to match the browser
window.
>
> The only other suggestion I have, would be to use CSS background
> positioning, but that may not work well with html 3.2.

Exactly the problem; If I was working in 4+CSS, I doubt I'd have a
problem. My problem is with HTML3.2, and it's limitations on the
presentation/layout of the site. It's my client who requested the site
be seen by as many browsers as possible, which restricts me to
HTML3.2, as there are still a few people out there who use level 3
browsers - not many, I grant you, but enough that the purpose of the
site requires their inclusion. Don't you just love clients like this?
They really make our job _challenging_, lol!

> Does that work with what you are trying to do, or am I missing
something else.

See the above, lol!

Many thanks for the continuing help!

Best regards,

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