Re: Background and/or Layers

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From: Murray (forums_at_HAHAgreat-web-sights.com)
Date: 03/10/05


Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:37:24 -0500

Use CSS to control the repeating of the background image:

table.special { background-repeat:no-repeat; }
...
<table class="special">

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Murray
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"cydog" <cydog@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:8AB14954-FD66-4977-A223-7AD9C759133B@microsoft.com...
> To Rob and Steve,
> Thank you for your responses.  The problem with making it a background 
> image
> is it repeats itself instead of being one banner.
>
> I like the cell idea, but I heard something about not using cells to make 
> a
> webpage.  Is that a different type of cell?  And if the cell is okay to 
> use,
> how do I get it to fill up three cells (top, left, and top-left)?  Do I 
> share
> the borders?
>
> Maybe a better question to ask, and I can take it from there, is....how do
> people put a banner up on top of their webpage?  It seems to me they just
> fill a cell with their chosen picture.  But if they want another picture
> layered on top of that one, what do they do?  Make the picture property
> absolute instead of relative, and just drag it on top?
>
> Sorry for so many questions, but thank you again for the responses.
>
> "Steve Easton" wrote:
>
>> Place it in a cell as the background image.  Then you can add content to 
>> the cell
>>
>> -- 
>> Steve Easton
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>> 95isalive
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>>
>> "cydog" <cydog@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:05AE07E8-1B12-4F56-8769-1A649BFBAA88@microsoft.com...
>> > The look I am going for is a menu on the side that flows into the top, 
>> > like
>> > this:
>> >
>> > ----------banner------
>> > --------
>> > -----
>> > ---      content would
>> > --           go here
>> > -
>> >
>> > How do I get that banner and sidebar to be one image?
>> > If I create it in Photoshop, it doesn't seem like I can layer anything 
>> > on
>> > top of it once it's in Front Page (i.e. button, other .gifs, text, 
>> > etc.).
>> >
>> > I guess what I am asking is how do I get started?  I've been looking 
>> > for
>> > days on the internet but can't find the answer.
>>
>>
>> 


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