On 27 Nov 2006, at 13:42:24, Tom Livingston wrote:
On 11/21/06 3:31 PM, "Patrick H. Lauke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Presuming that you're doing XHTML, rather than HTML...you're probably
better off applying the background image to the HTML element, not the
BODY. In XHTML, BODY isn't magical anymore in that it's just as
big as
its content...but what you describe (which I couldn't bother
trying to
replicate) sounds like a bug in the browser's redrawing/
recalculation of
BODY.
P
--
Patrick H. Lauke
Sounds logical. However, I am using IDs on the body to give, among
other
things, different bg images to site sections. Can I give the HTML
element an
ID instead? I just never heard of doing this type of thing to that
element.
Afraid not, the HTML element can only have lang and dir attributes:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#edef-HTML>
Regards,
Nick.
--
Nick Fitzsimons
http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
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