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


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