Did you also try for the body position:absolute? Florian
> Hello Florian - > > I just tried it, but the "cropped" background image continues to follow the > height of the wrapper. > > Cole > > -----Original Message----- > From: Florian Hamberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 5:54 PM > To: Cole Kuryakin > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WSG] Setting HTML and BODY background not working > > Did you already try position:static; for the wrapper div? > > Florian > > > Hello All - > > > > I've got this strange problem: I'm setting a tiling background in the > > html element - this works fine. Then I'm setting another background image > > in > > the > > > body element which is giving me fits. > > > > Take a look here: > > http://www.koisis.com/.clients/asdem/dev/index.php?cmd=001001 > > > > The height of the body image (the hiroshige painting) - rather than > > showing > > > in full - seems to be getting "cropped" by the height of my "wrapper" > > div. > > > > You can see what I mean on any page, but you can particularly see this > > "cropping" effect when you go to a page like Training > Conferences and > > Seminars. On this particular page (because the wrapper content is so > > long) you can see the full body image. On shorter pages - as previously > > mentioned > > > - the body image is cropped to the exact size of the wrapper. > > > > I do notice that if I take the background declaration out of the html, > > the body background image behaves as required. > > > > My css for both html and body are as follows: > > > > html{ > > height: 100%; > > margin-bottom: 1px; > > background: #80101C url(../image/_global/background_gradient.jpg) > > repeat-x 0 0; > > } > > > > body{ > > min-width: 780px; > > text-align: center; > > > > font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; > > font-weight: normal; > > font-size: 1em; > > > > background: url(../image/_global/hiroshige.jpg) no-repeat 0 0; > > color: #000; > > } > > > > Can someone please show me the error of my ways? > > > > Cole > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ******************************************************************* -- Florian Hamberger Florian Hamberger Computerberatung Pfannstiel 7 83112 Frasdorf Fon: +49 8052 2196 Fax: +49 8052 909111 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: www.fhcb.net Ust-IdNr: DE184195224 ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
