> > >> I'm taking the body element as the "viewport area" and the wrapper as > the > >> "content container area" > > > > > > That's how I usually interpret it. I might want my content to have an > > explicit width, but I'd like an unlimited-width repeating background > image. > > So <body> gets the background image and div#wrapper gets the width and > > margins. > > > > You could use the <body> tag as your explicit width wrapper, and put > the repeating background on your <html> tag as well! I always forget > this. > > Tim > > -- > > [email protected] >
Hmm, I hadn't thought about that, but it seems like it could work ... I have generally avoided styling <html> at all. Not sure there's any reason to avoid it; maybe I'm just superstitious. ;) -- Kyle G Sessions Berkeley Electronic Press [email protected] 510-665-1200 + 128 www.bepress.com bepress: the frontier of scholarly publishing since 1999 Check out IR success stories on the DC Telegraph at http://blog.digitalcommons.bepress.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
