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Right Hand Margin design 2

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Hondy

Hondy

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Mar 3, 2003
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Hi

Ok, an easy star for someone! On many sites designed for 800x600 that are set to the left edge of the screen there is often a nice margin in the right.

How do you set the background outside the page boundaries to have a gradient or a page edge without adding one on to the existing page graphics? Do you just have to use a repeating background graphic?

Thanks!
 
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My, you must be bored...But how do you make it appear in the correct place, is there a way to make the graphic appear at a coordinate or do you have to make it span the entire page? Is there a way to start the repeating graphic at a certain pixel width across?

All I have so far is a reapeating image, 2 pixels deep and 1700 across, it works but is this the way you are supposed to do it? Is there a more effient way?

Thanks
 
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That's the way I learned to do it. A background graphic generally starts in the upper left corner and stretches to its limit to the right, then repeats itself to the right and down. I know you can change some properties of the background with style sheets, but without using CSS that's how it works.

Lee
 
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Thanks, that's what I needed to know :)
 
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Like this?
Code: 
<html>
<head><title>Background sample
</title>
<style>
body{background-image:url('bacgroundImage.jpg');
background-position:800px;
background-repeat:repeat-y;}
</style>
</head>
<body>test
</body>
</html>

Glen
 
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Yes glenmac, exactly that, thanks! That will save precious bandwidth by downloading only whats needed, great!

 
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