SOLVED! (HTML3.2 - background images and edge-to-edge tables)

by "Roger Stenning" <roger(at)isgwds.enterprise-plc.com>

Date:	Tue, 22 May 2001 21:24:13 +0100
To:	<hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Cc:	"John McDougald" <jazzmidi(at)mindspring.com>, "Klaas De Waele" <klaas(at)gracegraphics.be>, "EmeraldSpirit" <emerald_spirit(at)yahoo.com>, =?Windows-1252?Q?St=E9phane_Bergeron?= <stephberg(at)videotron.ca>, <chuck.evans(at)click2learn.com>, "rudy" <r937(at)interlog.com>, "Christie Cooksey" <christie(at)thearmidalemall.com>
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Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you.

It always helps to go back to a problem, and read the suggestions
after a good night's sleep (or in this case, a damn good morning's
sleep!).

The problem was solved, on the HTML side, by the suggestions regarding
the leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
elements in the body tag.

Due, I suspect, that I had been quite literally staring at the problem
for most of the previous day, I'd missed that the elements should have
gone into the <.body.> tag, and not the <.td.> tag. Mea Culpa Maxima,
lol.

The rest was simply re-doing the background image to the right-most
table column, and the vertical text image that overlies that
background. Of course, the colours in the right column need to be
tweaked a little, to avoid that horrendous mucky brown; I'll probably
use a warmer red-brown, instead - childs play, in comparison, LOL!

Anyhow. The page now looks right in Internet Explorer 5.5, Netscape
(who WAS it that called it "Nutscrape", anyhow, LOL?) Navigator 4.7,
and Opera 5; if any of you feel like trying this page in earlier
version browsers, I'd be interested in hearing if the look is affected
adversely in any way, of course.

The corrected page is online, at
http://website.lineone.net/~g1liw/mcon/problem.html, by the way!

Again, you folks from the HTML Writer's Guild HWG-Techniques list have
done yourselves proud - let's hope there's a problem that I can help
with soon, so I can return the help so freely given - Again, many
thanks!

Best regards,

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