The 'fixed' property for element background images works in IE only for the body selector, and fails in all other cases.
Cheers, Kevin On 28/9/04 7:27 PM, "john" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ladies and Gentlemen: > > I'm attempting my first fixed background, and I have one question and > need one solution to a problem. > > question: is it supposed to work in IE? > > problem: in FF, even though I believe the syntax is correct, it's not > "fixing". I have a "sidepanel" ID created specifically to house the > fixed image (and I've also stuck the same image on the page itself, for > experimentation purposes). I tried, instead, to fix the image as a > background of the "content" ID (floating left and bottom), but I was > getting whitespace gaps in the image, and the content in the "content" > ID was wigging in IE...that remains a mystery. > > I admit that I'm very new at this stuff, and so I'm rather embarassed to > even mention it (worrying that it's a simple mistake that is easily > corrected). > > You can see what I'm talking about at > http://www.drzeus.net/redesign/cslewis/ > > Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated. I have > other questions (ie: how can I get the menu to stick in place in IE as > it does in Firefox), but I'll save those for another time. ;) > > Much obliged! ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
