Sue wrote: > with all the main pages at Fries now (this is my quick 'n' dirty > validation) except for one problem. Evidently, using a background image > in a table cell is a no-no.
Where are you having problems with this? I use background images in td's all the time, it validates just fine, too. You can specify a table background imageor a td background image (use background="whateverimage.jpg/gif"), you just can't do it in tr's. Or specify a background color with bgcolor="#xxxxxx". > I need to do that for the second row of the banner that's on every page, > otherwise I get a plain white background, and it looks really tacky. See, > the banner isn't really... it's a table. Here's the code I'm using for > the banner: and I like your banner, I figured out not long ago that it was mainly text and thought that was pretty nifty! hey, did you make your fries brighter or something? They look great, I was a real dodo for ages, when I first went to your site, I thought those were little flame/fire things until one day I went "duh, you want *fries*, those are *fries*!" :-) > <.TR VALIGN="Top" BGCOLOR="#000000"> ah, this is a problem in this line above, can't put this stuff in a tr, can't put valign or align or bgcolor or style classes, has to be in the table tag or the td tag. And one more caution, if you specify a background image for the table in the table tag, Netscape 4 will do funky things, it will restart the image in each cell of the table, so all you'll get is the top left corner of your image over and over and over... :-( There's ways around that tho... > <.TD ALIGN="center" COLSPAN="3" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" > BACKGROUND="images/texture_vlt_gray.gif" CLASS="fan2"> See this part above is fine, it's all in the td tag so it *should* work, is it not working? Some browsers may have a problem with both a color and image specified, could you specify the background color in the table tag and the image in the td tag? Then in any cell that doesn't have a background image, the overall background color in the table tag will show thru. alice ttlg http://lookinglass.populli.net/ ~ * ~ * ~ ~ * ~ * ~ ~ * ~ * ~ ~ * ~ * ~ ~ * ~ * ~ They said he was a murderer, I thought he was simply breathtaking. -- Author unknown _______________________________________________ Fanficwebdesign mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://populli.net/mailman/listinfo/fanficwebdesign_populli.net
