background

ak24_7 · Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 3

I have a page on melodramatic.com and I'm trying to put a background on it. I've tried the codes

<style type="text/css" id="styleme">
body {
background-image: url(http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/anduril/goth_004.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-position: bottom right;} </style>

-and-

<BODY BACKGROUND="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/anduril/goth_004.gif" TEXT=black LINK=black VLINK="white" >

...and they both gave me a back ground, but not how I wanted. I'm not sure how to explain what I'm trying to do, but I'll try.

This website is like an online journal kinda thing and I want the entire page to match the background. I don't want the white tables behind the words. I want the background to cover everything in the page except text and pictures. How do I do this??

Corey Bryant · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 7:01 am

I am confused. Why add the background image twice? And you style sheet goes in the <HEAD>

prabhu · Joined: 25 Dec 2004 Posts: 5

You have to use the following code only to slove your problem.
<BODY BACKGROUND="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/anduril/goth_004.gif" TEXT=black LINK=black VLINK="white">

ak24_7 · Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 3

I didn't use both at the same time. I tried the first one, and it didn't do what I wanted, so I deleted it and put in the second one.

Corey Bryant · Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 8:03 am

Ah ok - well the code you provided showed you had it in there twice.

Get rid of the body background information in the opening <BODY> tag and use CSS.

Maybe you could supply a link to the offending page? It sounds like it is not the background image that is the problem

ak24_7 · Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 3

http://melodramatic.com/users/psychoticbitch there's the link to the page... I want the white tables with writing in them to match the background...

Corey Bryant · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:11 pm

Just on a quick glance - you need to have your stylesheet in your <HEAD>. And you do not reference a DOCTYPE: