On 04.25.02 11:29 PM, alice ttlg, after having an unexpected vision of things to come, declaimed:
>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. It'snot that I'm having a problem, it's just that this specific validator says >>Warning: The attribute "BACKGROUND" is not allowed for the tag <TD>. However, if no one's complaining about it, I'm not gonna mess with it. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Right? > 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, Nope. Did you get new glasses? :grin:: > 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*!" :-) Ummm, yeah? Flames?? No comment. (Picture stolen from the website of a company that makes... are you ready?... french fry vending machines.) > 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 Ah. Didn't realize that. 'S'what happens when yo learn HTML by stealing it off other people's pages. ::Grin:: > 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. No, bacause the background color for the first row (title and fries... *not* flames!) is the black... I set the background color for the second row (the links) as white, so people surfing with images turned off can read the words. ::grin:: But thanks for the ideas and info. ...SuBethJimBob -- Chief Burger Flipper You Want Fries with That? The FanFiction TO GO Archive http://read.at/fries _______________________________________________ Fanficwebdesign mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://populli.net/mailman/listinfo/fanficwebdesign_populli.net
