Re: [WSG] Background image rendering

2006-12-04 Thread Tom Livingston
On 12/1/06 9:50 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: html, body{ position:relative; font:100%/1.2 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color:#fff; color:#888; height:100%; padding:0; margin:0;} html#home{ background:url(../images/home_bgimage.gif) 50% 0 no-

Re: [WSG] Background image rendering

2006-12-04 Thread Tom Livingston
On 12/4/06 10:00 AM, Tom Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The background-color on body is covering the background-image on html. So I assume the solution would be to move the background-color to HTML as well. No? How about the code-hints in DW8 not showing ID (or much of anything,

Re: [WSG] Background image rendering

2006-12-01 Thread Tom Livingston
On 11/27/06 11:14 AM, Nick Fitzsimons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So then with this DOCTYPE: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd; I can put IDs on the HTML element and go on my merry way. Right? Yes. (My, it feels

Re: [WSG] Background image rendering

2006-12-01 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Dec 2, 2006, at 4:50 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: html, body{ position:relative; font:100%/1.2 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color:#fff; color:#888; height:100%; padding:0; margin:0;} html#home{ background:url(../images/home_bgimage.gif) 50% 0 no- repeat;} !DOCTYPE

Re: [WSG] Background image rendering

2006-11-27 Thread Tom Livingston
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

Re: [WSG] Background image rendering

2006-11-27 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
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

Re: [WSG] Background image rendering

2006-11-27 Thread Tom Livingston
On 11/27/06 9:14 AM, Nick Fitzsimons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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/ OK. So. Can I still use the

Re: [WSG] Background image rendering

2006-11-27 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Nov 27, 2006, at 11:14 PM, Nick Fitzsimons wrote: 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

Re: [WSG] Background image rendering

2006-11-27 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 27 Nov 2006, at 14:22:12, Tom Livingston wrote: On 11/27/06 9:14 AM, Nick Fitzsimons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

RE: [WSG] Background image rendering

2006-11-27 Thread Patrick Lauke
Nick Fitzsimons I once read an explanation of why CSS selectors can't do this, but I can't find it now. I seem to remember that the main objections were: a) performance issues (as there is the potential, with ancestor queries, to run very slow depending on how deep the DOM tree is) b)

Re: [WSG] Background image rendering

2006-11-27 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 27 Nov 2006, at 15:38:30, Tom Livingston wrote: On 11/27/06 9:48 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This only applies to HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1. XHTML 1.0 allows for the id attribute on HTML. AvK has some details and references http://annevankesteren.nl/2003/08/html-id

Re: [WSG] Background image rendering

2006-11-27 Thread Tom Livingston
On 11/27/06 11:14 AM, Nick Fitzsimons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. (My, it feels pleasant to say Yes for a change :-) And equally pleasant to hear it! Thanks! -- Tom Livingston | Senior Multimedia Artist | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com

RE: [WSG] Background image rendering

2006-11-22 Thread michael.brockington
, November 21, 2006 7:44 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Background image rendering Hello all, I am noticing an issue in all browsers that I am testing in that a background image on the body doesn't render correctly after scaling up the font size