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vjamacaddict

vjamacaddict

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Aug 12, 2005
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My static background works in Internet Explorer and Webstractor. Not in Safari, Netscape, or Firefox. Is there someway to fix the code, so the static background will work with all/most browsers?

This is the webpage with the static background:



-- vjamacaddict, G4 iBook, OS X 10.3.9
 
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The bgproperties is a proprietary MS attribute and is as such only supported by IE. If you want to have a cross browser solution, you need to define that via css:
Code: 
<body style="background-image: url(../imagesbg/celticbg05a.jpg); background-attachment: fixed;">
 
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Plus, you should use a complete doctype to keep IE from going into "quirks" mode and giving you these inconsistent results. If the page had a valid doctype, IE wouldn't have worked either.

And look at the "repeat", "repeat-x" and "repeat-y" attributes for additional functionality with your background image.

Mike Krausnick
Dublin, California
 
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Mike -- Thanks for your reply! I never noticed the "repeat" before. Do I need to get rid of that? And how should I fix the code for the background image?

Someone told me to use this code instead:

<body style="background: url(../imagesbg/celticbg05a.jpg) fixed;">

After using the above code in place of the old code, the static background is working in Firefrox, Netscape, Safari, IE and Webstractor, at least on my G4 iBook. I haven't checked my webpages on my PowerMac 7300/500 yet (OS 9.1 and 8.6).

I've noticed that sometimes when I paste code into Nvu, after saving the file, the code automatically changes. Is Nvu an inferior application for creating webpages?

 
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I have no knowledge what Nvu is. I am at a loss however why you simply ignored my suggestion, which was exactly the same as "someone's", just written out differently.
 
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