css background def: IE5.5 vs IE6 - problem.

JulianUK · Aug 21, 2002

Hi

I give up sometimes with the lack of consistency between versions of - well, everything!

I have a problem with CSS between IE5.5 and IE6. 6 does not show my background as defined in the stylesheet.

Simple example, my .css is as follows:

body {background: black url(\1-bg.jpg) 0 0 no-repeat fixed;}

And my .asp page contains thus:

..header...
<link rel="stylesheet" title="test" href="test.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
<body>
<h1>Can you see the background? </h1>
</body>
...html etc...

This works fine on 5.5, but no background on 6. Any colours etc. from the .css are shown fine.

Is there a known bug or fix - or don't tell me, another code-around?!

The background is really pivotal to the style of my pages too! Grrrr....

Thanks

Julian

tviman · Aug 21, 2002

Just for giggles, what happens if you expand your css definition - example:

body {background: black; background-image: url(\1-bg.jpg); background-position:0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat}

Have no idea if this will solve the problem but it's worth a try! There's always a better way...

JulianUK · Aug 23, 2002

Hi tviman

I think that solution did work (I found it out from another reference site) but a far simpler solution was to include the correct DOCTYPE statement "...Transitional.." which made it work. The shorthand I was using seems to be ok then.

yes i know, it should've been there in the first place...!

thanks for the input

Julian

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css background def: IE5.5 vs IE6 - problem.

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