q u e r y

**web.dev** · Jul 25 '05, 05:15 PM

Re: q u e r y

Hi John,

John Dunne wrote:[color=blue]
> hey...
> 19 year old graphic designer here, totally unfamiliar with programming
> content. working hard on an online portfolio at the moment but experiencing
> some difficulties. i think javascript could rescue me.[/color]
[snip]
[color=blue]
> problem:
> -set a gif file as a background image in a html document[/color]

In this situation, you don't really need javascript to do what you want
to do. To set an image as a background image, you can do the following
on the <body> tag:

<body background = "path to image/image.gif">

Because you're a web designer, you might instead want to do it using
css, which will be more flexible:

<style type = "text/css">
body
{
background-image: url(imate.gif);
}
</style>

Doing the css way, you can specify whether you want the image to repeat
or not, plus others. Try looking into it.
[color=blue]
> -it fills the whole of my internet browser window on my 17" monitor yet,
> when viewed on a smaller monitor, users have to use the ugly horizontal
> scrollbar to view the whole document.
> -surely there is a way of configuring a background image so that,
> irrespective of the user's monitor size, it just fills the window.....[/color]

By default, when you set an image as a background, it will tile the
window (it will fill the window by repeating). Meaning, like you said,
if users were to view in a monitor smaller than 17", they will not get
a scrollbar, but the image will be cut off.

**Hywel Jenkins** · Jul 25 '05, 07:25 PM

Re: q u e r y

In article <1122311165.330 044.65280@g44g2 000cwa.googlegr oups.com>,
web.dev.cs@gmai l.com says...[color=blue]
> Hi John,
>
> John Dunne wrote:[color=green]
> > hey...
> > 19 year old graphic designer here, totally unfamiliar with programming
> > content. working hard on an online portfolio at the moment but experiencing
> > some difficulties. i think javascript could rescue me.[/color]
> [snip]
>[color=green]
> > problem:
> > -set a gif file as a background image in a html document[/color]
>
> In this situation, you don't really need javascript to do what you want
> to do. To set an image as a background image, you can do the following
> on the <body> tag:
>
> <body background = "path to image/image.gif">[/color]

"background " was deprecated in 1997. Move on and catch up.

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