Thank you Andrew,

So the obvious follow-up question is "how do I get it to work in both NN 
and IE"?

Is there a way in CSS to create two styles, one for NN one for IE, and have 
it match the browser?

Nate




At 4/29/2002 07:36 AM, Andrew McFarland wrote:
>At 18:14 27/04/02 -0400, Nate Harel wrote:
>
>>I found that if I use the body tag as follows, I get the background image:
>>{body .... class="bgimage"}
>>where bgimage is defined in the style sheet.
>>
>>Two problems:
>>1) In IE it shows, but I don't know how to position it farther down on 
>>the page
>
>You can move it down the page a couple of ways. The hard (but NS4 
>compatible) way is to increase the canvas size of the image so there is 
>more space at the top. The easy, elegant (but NS4 incompatible) way is to 
>do something like this:
>
>body {
>         background-image: url(foo.gif);
>         background-position: 10px 20px;
>}
>
>This will position the image 10px to the left and 20px down.
>
>>2) It does not show in NN4 at all. It flashes on the screen as the page 
>>loads and then disappears.
>
>Sounds like the tables are covering the background image, and Netscape 4 
>isn't honoring background-image: none. Try removing background-image: none 
>from the table rule in CSS.
>
>Andrew
>
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