Hi, This is the Web Standards Group.
Web Standards say only use tables for tabular data - not presentation. I'm not sure what your tabular data is here? -- Stuart Foulstone. http://www.bigeasyweb.co.uk BigEasy Web Design 69 Flockton Court Rockingham Street Sheffield S1 4EB Tel. 07751 413451 On Tue, July 31, 2007 5:02 pm, Matt 0000 wrote: > My goal is to set the background image of a table and add individual cells > (text or images) that can be opaque or transparent. The height and width > of > the table is fixed. The image that needs to be set in the table background > however, is not under my control, and can be larger or smaller than the > table's viewing area. Tagging the code as shown below does not > automatically > up/down-scale the image to fit within the desired viewing area: > > <table width="100" height="50" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" > border="0" > > style="background-image:url(images/image1.gif);background-position: > center; > background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: > fixed;"> > <tr> > <td> > <img src="..."> > </td> > <td width="30"></td> > <td> > some text here... > </td> > </tr> > </table> > > Is there a standardized way to present this without resolving to a > Javascript or CSS hack ? > > Matt > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
