Tegan Dowling wrote: > On Nov 22, 2007 3:00 PM, Dr Fred C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a simple way to get a page (or section of a page) to display a >> background image? >> >> NO, I'm not looking for solutions that require adding a bunch of >> commands for each customized page to add to local config, or changes to >> a skin for every page background I want to control. Or at least this is >> what I take away as being the 'solution' from the jibberish on >> pmwiki/BackgroundImages about setting a background image. >> > > Maybe re-visit that page, > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/BackgroundImages? > > I've used this, and it's all controlled in-page. > > It ain't perfect, but the imperfections might be irrelevant to your > application: > > (:div style='border:0; padding:10px; color:black; height:750px; > background-image:url([=http://www.pmwiki.org/pmwiki/uploads/Test/clouds.jpg=])':) > > (:divend:) >
This sort of works, thanks. In gemini skin+firefox, there's a big 15-20 px border around the page section. It's not a particularly clean solution, nor can one see the background image selected as part of the process, nor is it as simple as filling out a simple box in my html editor's page preferences for the background of my choice. However, it's workable given most of the work can be done by copying and pasting a lot of seemingly unrelated jiberish. I thought I'd left most of this sort of programming markup stuff behind me from when I was coding compugraphics text formatting back in the early 80s. Seems a lot of the power of pmwiki world is heading back in that direction. IMHO, the edit page box ought to have an option box to set background and/or page style from a list. That doesn't seem to fit into how things are done around here. However, at least the coding option is it's there when one needs it. Always, Dr Fred C [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
