Stretched image in a cell

[AndyGroom]

Hi,

Is it possible to have an image as the background to a cell in a table, so that the image stretches to fill the cell rather than repeats within it?

I need to be able to put text in the cell and so the image needs to be part of the background as opposed to being an image object.

- Andy
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[BabyJeffy]

You can't stretch an image as the background of a container.

You could place the image in a container (and set the width/height so that it stretched to fit a specific dimension), give that container absolute positioning and a low z-index - and then position it behind the table cell.

This mimics the behaviour of a background image.

Cheers,
Jeff

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[AndyGroom]

Thanks Jeff. That's a bit advanced for me, I don't suppose you know of a page where this has been implemented so that I can get the gist of it?

- Andy
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[BabyJeffy]

It was just a series of thoughts I was following. I'm sure someone has tried it - I have no links for you.

I would advise you to avoid using this technique -- there has to be a better way of achieving the visual result you are looking for.

Maybe you could use a correctly sized image? Maybe that's the way forward...

Cheers,
Jeff

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[Vragabond]

Actually, with the technique described it would actually be better to have a relatively positioned table cell and inside an absolutely positioned image of 100% width and 100% height. Since it is absolutely positioned, it won't interfere with the rest of the objects and since it is inside and 100% it should grow with the cell. Theory works...

 

[AndyGroom]

OK well let me ask this a different way then, how do you fill a cell with a gradient colour (say light-blue to dark-blue) regardless of the width of the cell?

- Andy
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[Vragabond]

Is gradient going from left to right, so the gradient is stretching out or is it going top to bottom and it only needs to be repeated?

 

[AndyGroom]

Left to right please! Or if you're Arabic, right to left.

- Andy
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