Is it posssible to inherit the previous pages (parent pages)
background image? Is there a script out there I could look at? Thanks
background image? Is there a script out there I could look at? Thanks
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Re: Inherit Background from previous page
Grant Wagner <gwagner@agrico reunited.com> wrote in message news:<3F1405C3. CA469E39@agrico reunited.com>.. .[color=blue]
> erik wrote:
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> > Is it posssible to inherit the previous pages (parent pages)
> > background image? Is there a script out there I could look at? Thanks[/color]
>
> The browser has no way of knowing what the background image of the
> previous page was. If you want to use the same background image, you'll
> have to set a cookie with the background image name and read it on each
> page, or pass the image name around on the URL.[/color]
Not entirly true. I've got what the OP dscribes to work without
cookies or passing in the url.
I've only tested it in mozilla 1.4 and I wouldn't like to comment on
the 'goodness' of the method though :)
I found part of the answer here -
If you use the [depricated] background attribute of the body tag to
specify the image you can change/reference it with javascript. (I
can't get it to work with body background images defined with css
though.)
In the opened window call the following line of javascript with an
onload on the body tag
document.body.b ackground=opene r.document.body .background
mike.
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Re: Inherit Background from previous page
Not sure I see the point of doing this.
Why not just set up the background-image property in a stylesheet like...
body { background-image:URL("bg1. gif"); }
body.specific { background-image:URL("bg2. gif"); }
Then refer to that from your web pages
<body class="specific "> which will pick up the bg2.gif background.
<body> will pick up the bg1.gif background.
I can see no conceivable purpose for inheriting the background from the
previous page, just use CSS.
Peter.
"mike" <inevercheckthi saddress@hotmai l.com> wrote in message
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> Grant Wagner <gwagner@agrico reunited.com> wrote in message[/color]
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> > erik wrote:
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> > > Is it posssible to inherit the previous pages (parent pages)
> > > background image? Is there a script out there I could look at? Thanks[/color]
> >
> > The browser has no way of knowing what the background image of the
> > previous page was. If you want to use the same background image, you'll
> > have to set a cookie with the background image name and read it on each
> > page, or pass the image name around on the URL.[/color]
>
> Not entirly true. I've got what the OP dscribes to work without
> cookies or passing in the url.
> I've only tested it in mozilla 1.4 and I wouldn't like to comment on
> the 'goodness' of the method though :)
>
> I found part of the answer here -
>
> http://www.codebelly.com/javascript/...agechange.html
>
> If you use the [depricated] background attribute of the body tag to
> specify the image you can change/reference it with javascript. (I
> can't get it to work with body background images defined with css
> though.)
>
> In the opened window call the following line of javascript with an
> onload on the body tag
>
> document.body.b ackground=opene r.document.body .background
>
>
>
> mike.[/color]
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Re: Inherit Background from previous page
mike wrote:
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> Grant Wagner <gwagner@agrico reunited.com> wrote in message news:<3F1405C3. CA469E39@agrico reunited.com>.. .[color=green]
> > erik wrote:
> >[color=darkred]
> > > Is it posssible to inherit the previous pages (parent pages)
> > > background image? Is there a script out there I could look at? Thanks[/color]
> >
> > The browser has no way of knowing what the background image of the
> > previous page was. If you want to use the same background image, you'll
> > have to set a cookie with the background image name and read it on each
> > page, or pass the image name around on the URL.[/color]
>
> Not entirly true. I've got what the OP dscribes to work without
> cookies or passing in the url.
> I've only tested it in mozilla 1.4 and I wouldn't like to comment on
> the 'goodness' of the method though :)
>
> I found part of the answer here -
>
> http://www.codebelly.com/javascript/...agechange.html
>
> If you use the [depricated] background attribute of the body tag to
> specify the image you can change/reference it with javascript. (I
> can't get it to work with body background images defined with css
> though.)
>
> In the opened window call the following line of javascript with an
> onload on the body tag
>
> document.body.b ackground=opene r.document.body .background
>
> mike.[/color]
What you have done is open a new window and accessed the opener's background attribute. This is "inheriting "
the background image from a previous page. If that is what what the OP meant by "parent" page then sure, he
could jury rig the setup like this:
In Internet Explorer use:
<style type="text/css">
body { background-image:URL("3dbl ocks.gif"); }
</style>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var w = window.open('ab out:blank');
w.document.body .style.backgrou ndImage = document.body.c urrentStyle.bac kgroundImage;
</script>
And in Mozilla you would use:
w.document.body .style.backgrou ndImage = document.defaul tView.getComput edStyle(documen t.body,
"").backgroundI mage;
Note that on a web site, both pages would have to come from the same domain for this to work, you can't
specify the backgroundImage for a page loaded in a new window which isn't from your domain.
Of course, the standard way to handle this is define the background image in one place, then specify:
<link rel="stylesheet " type="text/css" href="/path/to/file.css" />
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Re: Inherit Background from previous page
Thats exactly what I ment - thanks Ill have to give this a whirl
Erik
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