Re: background image

by Freda Lockert <fredalockert(at)clara.co.uk>

Date:	Sat, 20 Jan 2001 19:35:59 +0000
To:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
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>Noteworthy Web Designs webmaster(at)noteworthydesigns.com did eloquently put
>it this way on 01-01-20 05.18
>
>>it smaller without repeating (yes, I know CSS, but those Netscape
>>people
>
>I tried inline CSS like this
><body style="background-image: url(bgImage.jpg);
>background-repeat: no-repeat">
>
>in both Netscape Communicator 4.76 and IE5 on Mac. It seems to work well
>for simpler designs at least. I put a layer and a table within another
>layer on top of the background (with inline styles) and I couldn't see
>any of the SERIOUS screen rewrite problems I've heard about, when I
>resized the window. Is this only on some platforms or early 4.x versions
>of Netscape?
>
>I checked the bugs for Netscape at http://css.nu/pointers/bugs.html, but
>saw nothing specifically for background-image. Can someone please shed
>some light in this? How do I provoke this set of problems?
>

I believe the problem is only with external style sheets, but stand 
to be corrected.

Freda

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