CSS - Static Background On Top Of Repeating Background Problem

I've got a problem with a site I'm developing.

I want to repeat-x a body background pattern, but the problem is that it overlays another version of itself just where my container div starts. Anyone know what's going on here?

Code:

html, body{
background-color:#AFC4E2;
background-image:url(bgmew.jpg);background-position: top center;
background-repeat:repeat-x;
color:#234;
font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size:100%;
text-align:center;
}

a{
font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size:90%;
color:#678;
text-decoration:none;
font-weight:bold;
background:inherit;
}

a:hover, a:active{text-decoration:underline;}

p{
font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size:90%;
font-weight:normal;
color:#234;
background:inherit;
}

#container{
width:760px;
height:auto;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
color:#234;
border:2px solid #999;
padding:10px;
margin: 50px auto;
text-align:left;
}

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Thanks for any help you can give me.

Hi there,

I'm trying to position a background image (starting 756 pixels from the left) which is repeating horizontally - but of course am running into problems because as soon as you repeat-x an image repeats the whole screen, not taking into account background positions.

Does anyone have any ideas how I can possibly avoid this?!

The only thing I can think of is to create a huge image to factor in for all screen solutions, and just not repeat it at all. I'd prefer not to do it this way as firstly it's not very clean, and secondly it will result in a large file size.

Here is a link to the background image to show you what I'm talking about:
http://joshsphotos.com/images/bg.jpg

I've also put in the CSS that would show what I'm trying to achieve.

Code:

body {
background-image: url(../images/bg_repeat.jpg);
background-position: 756px 0px;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}

Any help would be most appreciated.

For some reason repeating backgrounds won't repeat in Firefox unless I specify a height for the div.

They show up ok in IE.

This will display:

Code:

#contentcontainer {
  background-image: url('images/layout/content_bg.png');
  background-repeat: repeat-y;
  height: 350px;
  width: 785px;
  font-size: 0px;
  margin: 0px;
  padding: 0px;
  background-color: #fff;
}

This won't:

Code:

#contentcontainer {
  background-image: url('images/layout/content_bg.png');
  background-repeat: repeat-y;
  width: 785px;
  font-size: 0px;
  margin: 0px;
  padding: 0px;
  background-color: #fff;
}

I need to find a way around this as my pages are varying lengths.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Beardy

I'm trying to get a background image/color to repeat down the left hand column of a site, he http:// www. lisaannschleipfer .com, but can't seem to get it working in either FF or IE. You'll notice that in the left hand column, the tannish color does not repeat all the way down the column.

I'm fairly certain I've narrowed it down to the bit of CSS code he

Code:

div#wrapper {
        margin: auto;
	width:800px;
	background: #d1c8ab url(../images/wrapper_bg.jpg);
        background-repeat: repeat-y;
}

I've tried looking around the forum for some solutions, and have found a few possibilities (height: auto, overflow: auto, etc), but nothing that I have tried to insert into the stylesheet has seemed to work.

Does anyone have any suggestions or solutions? I'd appreciate it!

Here's the entire stylesheet, for reference:

Code:

html {
  height: 100%;
  margin-bottom: 0px;
}

form {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

img,table {
	border:none;
}

table td {
	vertical-align:top;
}

body {
	font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
	line-height: 1.3em;
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
	font-size: 12px;
	color: #666666;
	background: #0d789c url(../images/bg.jpg) top center repeat-x;
}

a:link, a:visited {
	text-decoration: none;
	font-weight: normal;
	color: #0d789c;
}

a:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
	font-weight: normal;
	color: #0d789c;
}

input.button {
 cursor: pointer;
 vertical-align: bottom;
 border: 0px;
 background:none;
}

p {
  margin-top: 0;
  margin-bottom: 5px;
  text-align:justify;
}

/*****************************************/
/*** Template specific layout elements ***/
/*****************************************/

#header {
	margin:0 auto;
	width:940px;
}

.left_bg {
	background: transparent url(../images/left_bg.jpg) top right no-repeat;
	width:70px;
}

.middle_bg {
	background: transparent url(../images/.jpg) top right no-repeat;
	width:800px;
}

.right_bg {
	background: transparent url(../images/right_bg.jpg) top left no-repeat;
	width:70px;
}

.top_bg {
	background: transparent url(../images/top_bg.jpg) top center no-repeat;
	width:800px;
	height:45px;
}

.rightside {
	background: transparent url(../images/rightside_bg.jpg) top center no-repeat;
	width:185px;
	height:173px;
}

.header_bg {
	background: transparent url(../images/header_bg.jpg) top center no-repeat;
	width:615px;
	height:173px;
}



#page_bg {
	padding: 0;
	margin:0px auto;
}

#top {
	width:800px;
	margin:0 auto;
	padding:0;
}

div.center {
  padding:0;
}

div#wrapper {
        margin: auto;
	width:800px;
	background: #d1c8ab url(../images/wrapper_bg.jpg);
        background-repeat: repeat-y;
}

#logo {
	padding:47px 50px 0 50px;
	height:100px;
	text-align:left;
	margin:0 auto;
} 

#logo a, #logo a:link, #logo a:hover {
	font-weight: normal;
	font-family : "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 36px;
	padding:0px;
	margin:0;
	line-height:1.4em;
	letter-spacing:2px;
	color:#fefefe;
	text-decoration:none;
}

div.newsflash {
	height:150px;
	padding:10px;
	overflow: hidden;
	color:#fff;
	text-align:left;
}

div#tabarea {
	margin: 0;
	width:615px;
	height:26px;
	text-align:left;
}

#footer {
	width:800px;
	margin:0 auto;
}

.validation {
	float:right;
	padding:8px 20px 0 0;
}

#footer .footer {
	background: transparent url(../images/footer.jpg) top center no-repeat;
	height:28px;
	width:800px;
}

#pathway {
	padding: 0px 10px 8px;
	width: auto;
	margin-right: 250px;
	text-align: left;
}

#search {
	float: right;
	width:320px;
	margin-top: -20px;
	margin-right: 20px;
	height: 40px;
	overflow: hidden;
	text-align:right;
}

#area {
	padding: 0;
	width:100%;
/* color:#d1c8ab; */
}

#whitebox {
	margin: 0;
	width: auto;
}

#whitebox div {
	text-align: left;
}



#whitebox_br {
	height: 13px;
	background: url(../images/mw_content_b_r.png) 100% 100% no-repeat;
}

/* horizontal pill menu */
.pill {
  margin:0px 0 0 1px;
  text-align:left;
}

td.pill_m {
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0 10px;
  width: auto;
  text-align:center;
}

#pillmenu {
  white-space: nowrap;
  height: 26px;
  float: left;
}

#pillmenu ul {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;

  list-style:none;
}

#pillmenu li {
	float: left;
	margin: 0px 1px 0 0;
	padding: 0;
	background: transparent;
}

#pillmenu a {
  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-size: 11px;
  font-weight: normal;
	float:left;
  display:block;
  height: 24px;
  line-height: 24px;
  padding: 2px 10px 0 10px;
  color: #fff;
  text-decoration: none;
  background: transparent;
}


#pillmenu a:hover {
  text-decoration: underline;
}

#pillmenu a#active_menu-nav {
	color: #fff;
	background: url(../images/active_arrow.gif) top center no-repeat;
}

#pillmenu a#active_menu-nav:hover {
	color: #fff;
}

#leftcolumn {
	margin: 0;
	text-align:left;
	width: 221px;
	float:left;
	background: #d1c8ab url(../images/leftcol_bg.jpg) top left no-repeat;

}


div#maincolumnfull {
	padding:2px 10px;




	float:left;
	width: 760px;

}









div#maincolumn {
padding:20px 10px;
float:left;
width: 559px;
background: #ffffff url(../images/maincol_bg.jpg) top left no-repeat;
}

div.nopad {
	padding: 0;
	text-align:left;
}

td.middle_pad {
	width: 20px;
}

/*****************************************/
/*** Joomla! specific content elements ***/
/*****************************************/

div.offline {
	background: #fffebb;
	width: 100%;
	position: absolute;
	top: 0;
	left: 0;
	font-size: 1.2em;
	padding: 5px;
}

span.pathway {
  display: block;
  margin: 0 20px;
  height: 16px;
  line-height: 16px;
  overflow: hidden;
}

/* headers */
div.componentheading {
  padding-left: 0px;
}

h1 {
	padding: 0;
	font-family:Helvetica ,Arial,sans-serif;
	font-size: 1.3em;
	font-weight: bold;
	vertical-align: bottom;
	color: #666;
	text-align: left;
	width: 100%;
}

h2, .contentheading {
	padding: 0;
	font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica,sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
	vertical-align: bottom;
	color: #8cb6cf;
	text-align: left;
	width: 100%;
}

table.contentpaneopen h3 {
	margin-top: 25px;
}

h4 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #333;
}

h3, .componentheading, table.moduletable th, legend {
  margin: 0;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-family: Tahoma,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
  color:#71a7c8;
  font-size: 1.4em;
  padding-left: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
	text-align: left;
}


/* small text */
.small {
	font-size: .90em;
	color: #999;
	font-weight: normal;
	text-align: left;
}

.modifydate {
  height: 20px;
  vertical-align: bottom;
	font-size: .90em;
	color: #999;
	font-weight: normal;
	text-align: left;
}

.createdate {
	height: 20px;
	vertical-align: top;
	font-size: .90em;
	color: #999;
	font-weight: normal;
	vertical-align: top;
	padding-bottom: 5px;
	padding-top: 0px;

}

a.readon {
	margin-top: 10px;
	display: block;
	float: left;
	background: url(../images/mw_readon.png) top right no-repeat;
	padding-right: 20px;
	line-height: 14px;
	height: 16px;
}

/* form validation */
.invalid { border-color: #ff0000; }
label.invalid { color: #ff0000; }


/** overlib **/

.ol-foreground {
	background-color: #f6f6f6;
}

.ol-background {
	background-color: #666;
}

.ol-textfont {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
}

.ol-captionfont {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	color: #f6f6f6;
	font-weight: bold;
}
.ol-captionfont a {
	color: #0B55C4;
	text-decoration: none;
	font-size: 12px;
}

.ol-closefont {}

/* menu links */
a.mainlevel:link, a.mainlevel:visited {
	padding-left: 5px;
}

a.mainlevel:hover {

}

/* spacers */
span.article_separator {
	display: block;
	height: 20px;
}

.article_column {
	padding-right: 5px;
}

.column_separator {
	border-left: 1px dashed #e0e0e0;
	padding-left: 10px;
}

td.buttonheading {

}

.clr {
	clear: both;
}


div#maindivider {
  border-top: 1px solid #ddd;
  margin-bottom: 10px;
  overflow: hidden;
  height: 1px;
}

table.blog span.article_separator {
	display: block;
	height: 20px;
}

/* table of contents */
table.contenttoc {
  margin: 5px;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  padding: 5px;
}

table.contenttoc td {
  padding: 0 5px;
}


/* content tables */
td.sectiontableheader {
  background:transparent url(../images/sectiontableheader_bg.gif) top left repeat-x;
  color: #fff;
  font-weight: bold;
  padding: 4px;
  border-right: 1px solid #fff;
}

tr.sectiontableentry0 td,
tr.sectiontableentry1 td,
tr.sectiontableentry2 td {
  padding: 6px;
}

td.sectiontableentry0,
td.sectiontableentry1,
td.sectiontableentry2 {
  padding: 3px;
}


tr.sectiontableentry1 {
	background:#f3f3f3;
}
tr.sectiontableentry2 {
	background:#fefefe;
}

/* content styles */
table.contentpaneopen, table.contentpane {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}

table.contentpaneopen li {
	margin-bottom: 5px;
}

table.contentpaneopen fieldset {
	border: 0;
	border-top: 1px solid #ddd;
}

table.contentpaneopen h3 {
	margin-top: 25px;
}

table.contentpaneopen h4 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #333;
}

.highlight {
	background-color: #fffebb;
}


/* module control elements */
table.user1user2 div.moduletable {
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}

div.moduletable {
  margin-bottom: 25px;
}

div.module_menu, div.module {
	margin: 0 0 0 2px;
	padding: 0;
	margin-bottom: 15px;
}


div.module_menu div div div div ,div.module div div div div {
	background: none;
	padding: 0;
}

div.module_menu div, div.module div {
	
}

div.module_menu div div, div.module div div {
	padding:0 0 10px 0;
	
}

div.module_menu div div div, div.module div div div {
	padding: 0px;
	width: auto;	
}

div.module_menu ul li a:link, div.module_menu ul li a:visited,
div.module ul li a:link, div.module ul li a:visited {
	font-weight: normal;
	background:transparent url(../images/blue/bullet2.jpg) top left no-repeat;
	line-height:24px;
	
}

#leftcolumn div.module table ,#rightcolumn div.module table {
	width: auto;
}

#leftcolumn h3, #rightcolumn h3 {
	height:36px;
	color:#fff;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height:26px;
	margin: -2px 0 0 ;
	position:absolude;
	padding:0px 0 2px 22px;
	text-align: left;
	width:198px;
	background:transparent url(../images/h3_bg.gif) top left no-repeat;
}


#leftcolumn .moduletable_menu, #leftcolumn .moduletable, #leftcolumn .moduletable_text, #leftcolumn .c {
	margin:0 0 20px 0;
	padding: 0px;
	text-align:left;
}

#leftcolumn ul.menu, #rightcolumn ul.menu {
	margin:0;
	padding:0px 0 0 10px;
	list-style:none;
	margin: 0px 0;
	width:194px;	
}


#leftcolumn ul.menu li, #rightcolumn ul.menu li {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
}

#leftcolumn ul.menu li a, #leftcolumn ul.menu li a:link,
#rightcolumn ul.menu li a, #rightcolumn ul.menu li a:link {
	display:block;
	line-height:20px;
	border-bottom:1px dotted #c3b586;
	padding:2px 0px 0 12px;
	height:20px;
	text-decoration:none;
	text-align:left;
	color:#666666;
}

#leftcolumn ul.menu li a:hover, #rightcolumn ul.menu li a:hover {
	color:#0d789c;
}

/* ****** left col current menu ****** */
#leftcolumn ul.menu li#current a, #leftcolumn ul.menu li#current a:link, 
#rightcolumn ul.menu li#current a, #rightcolumn ul.menu li#current a:link {
	display:block;
	line-height:20px;
	border-bottom:1px dotted #0d789c;
	padding:2px 0px 0 12px;
	text-decoration:none;
	color:#0d789c;
}

#leftcolumn ul.menu li#current a:hover, #rightcolumn ul.menu li#current a:hover {
	color:#666666;
}

/* ****** left col sub menu ****** */
#leftcolumn ul.menu li ul, #rightcolumn ul.menu li ul {
	margin:0;
	padding:0 0 0 0px;
	list-style:none;
	
}

#leftcolumn ul.menu li#current ul li a, #leftcolumn ul.menu li#current ul li a:link,
#rightcolumn ul.menu li#current ul li a, #rightcolumn ul.menu li#current ul li a:link {
	background: transparent url(../images/menu_sub_link_bg.gif) left no-repeat;
	text-decoration:none;
	color:#666666;
	padding:2px 25px;
}

#leftcolumn ul.menu li.active ul li#current a, #leftcolumn ul.menu li.active ul li#current a a:link {
	background: transparent url(../images/current_link.jpg) left no-repeat;
	text-decoration:none;
	color:#666666;
	padding:2px 25px;
}

#leftcolumn ul.menu li#current ul li a:hover, #rightcolumn ul.menu li#current ul li a:hover {
	s/menu_sub_link_bg.gif) left no-repeat;
	color:#666666;
}

/* forms */
#leftcolumn .moduletable ul, #rightcolumn .moduletable ul {
	margin:6px 0;
	padding:0;
	list-style:none;
}


#leftcolumn .moduletable ul li, #rightcolumn .moduletable ul li {
	margin:0;
	padding:0 2px;
}

table.adminform textarea {
  width: 540px;
  height: 400px;
  font-size: 1em;
  color: #000099;
}

div.search input {
	width: 69px;
        vertical-align:bottom;
        background-color: #ffffff;
	margin: 15px 0 10px 0;
}

form#form-login fieldset {
	margin:0px 20px 0 20px;
	padding:20px 0 0 0;
	border:none;
	text-align:left;
}
form#form-login ul { 
	text-align:left;
	list-style:none;
	margin:10px 0 0 0;
	padding:0;	
}
form#form-login ul li{ 
	text-align:left;
	margin:0;
	padding:0 0 0 20px;
}

#leftcolumn div.module h3 {
	top:-500px;
	left:-500px;
	padding-left:0;
	position:absolute;
}



/* thumbnails */
div.mosimage         {  margin: 5px; }
div.mosimage_caption {  font-size: .90em; color: #666; }






div.caption       { padding: 0 10px 0 10px; }
div.caption img   { border: 1px solid #CCC; }
div.caption p     { font-size: .90em; color: #666; text-align: center; }












/* Parameter Table */

table.paramlist {
	margin-top: 5px;
}

table.paramlist td.paramlist_key {
	width: 128px;
	text-align: left;
	height: 30px;
}

table.paramlist td.paramlist_value {
}

div.message {
	font-family : "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size : 14px;
	color : #c30;
	text-align: center;
	width: auto;
	background-color: #f9f9f9;
	border: solid 1px #d5d5d5;
	margin: 3px 0px 10px;
	padding: 3px 20px;
}

/* Banners module */

/* Default skyscraper style */
.bannergroup {
}

.banneritem {
}

/* Text advert style */

.banneritem_text {
	padding: 4px;
	font-size: 11px;
}

.bannerfooter_text {
	padding: 4px;
	font-size: 11px;
	background-color: #F7F7F7;
	text-align: right;
}

/* System Messages */
/* see system general.css */

.pagination span { padding: 2px; }
.pagination a    { padding: 2px; }

/* Polls */
.pollstableborder td {
	text-align: left;
}

/* Frontend Editing*/
fieldset {
	border: 1px solid #ccc;
	margin-top: 15px;
	padding: 0 15px;
}

legend {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0 10px;
}

td.key {
	border-bottom:1px solid #eee;
	color: #666;
}

/* Tooltips */
.tool-tip {
	float: left;
	background: #ffc;
	border: 1px solid #D4D5AA;
	padding: 5px;
	max-width: 200px;
}

.tool-title {
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	font-size: 100%;
	font-weight: bold;
	margin-top: -15px;
	padding-top: 15px;
	padding-bottom: 5px;
	background: url(../../system/images/selector-arrow.png) no-repeat;
}

.tool-text {
	font-size: 100%;
	margin: 0;
}

/* System Standard Messages */
#system-message dd.message ul { background: #C3D2E5 url(../../images/notice-info.png) 4px center no-repeat;}

/* System Error Messages */
#system-message dd.error ul { color: #c00; background: #E6C0C0 url(../../system/images/notice-alert.png) 4px center no-repeat; border-top: 3px solid #DE7A7B; border-bottom: 3px solid #DE7A7B;}

/* System Notice Messages */
#system-message dd.notice ul { color: #c00; background: #EFE7B8 url(../../system/images/notice-note.png) 4px center no-repeat; border-top: 3px solid #F0DC7E; border-bottom: 3px solid #F0DC7E;}



/* ****************************************************************************** */
/* blue */
input,button {
	background:transparent;
        vertical-align:bottom;
}

input[type="checkbox"], input[type="radio"]{
   background: transparent;
   border: none;
}

/* -------------------------- */
a.sgfooter:link, a.sgfooter:visited {
	color			: #fff;
	font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
	text-decoration:none;
}
a.sgfooter:hover {
	color: #fff;
	font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
	text-decoration:none;
}
#sgf {
font-size: 11px;
text-align:left;
color: #fff;
padding:4px 0 0 10px ;
font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
width:500px;
float:left;
}
.sgf {
text-align:right;
font-size: 11px;
font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
color: #666;
text-decoration:none;
}
.sgf1 {
font-size: 11px;
font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
color: #666666;
text-align:left;
}

a.sglink:link, a.sglink:visited {
	color			: #666666;
	font-size		: 11px;
	font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
	text-decoration:none;
}
a.sglink:hover {
	color			: #666666;
	font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
	text-decoration:none;
}

Hi. I have an image that I want to be a background in a webpage. What I want to do is have that background fill up the rest of the page but remain static on the page while the content scrolls (if need by, y'know, varies depending on the resolution of the users monitor). How can I accomplish this?

I have a div with a background color set, that I want to have slightly transparent. Inside that div, is essentially my entire website. Now if I apply the opacity to the main outer div, all the divs inside inherit that transparency. Any ways to get around this?

The outer Div with the transparency is the "content_wrapper" div. It excludes the header and footer. So the only issue is correcting everything wrapped inside the "content_wrapper" and "content" div. I tried setting the "content" div to opacity: 1; but it had no effect whatsoever.

http://www.area51entertainment.co/index.php?about

The layout I have going is a bit difficult to explain. Here's a diagram..



The area of importance is the header. The content and main head area are centered. The area to the left and right of the header are a <div>. However, as you can see, the background image on the left is different than the one on the right. I'm having difficulty making this work. the images can be stretched horizontally without a problem, but the two sides must meet in the middle beneath the header.

I hope this makes sense.

What I've got to do, I think, is tell the background image of the underlying <div> to stretch to 100%, and make this image 300px wide or so including both sides of the image and a split. The split would hide behind the header. I can't find a method to stretch the background image, though.

Does anybody know of a better way, or a way to achieve this method at all without getting into completely different layouts?

Thanks in advance for any assistance/suggestions.

I'm redesigning my website comdots.com. I'm puzzled by my body background line. If I delete the repeat-x; statement I get no background, just a white background. What I was expecting was that the background would repeat itself down both sides and across the bottom, which is what want. If I include the repeat-x; statement I get what you would expect and as shown on my website. So what should I change in my style.css file in order to get my background on the top, bottom, left, and right.

Hi All,

I need someone's eye to find mistake in my simple code which is not responding in FF. I have one main div and 2 sub divs under that main div. The main div contains Background-color: white which, FF is not showing. It is working in IE but FF is not showing it. I don't know if I am missing something here but I am not able to figure out what is the problem here? Can some one please point out any error from the below code. I will be greatful to you.

Thank you.

PHP Code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled 2</title>    
<style>
#Navigation { width: 779px; height: 25px; background-color: #CCCC33; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #222; text-align: left; padding-top:2px;}

#ContentMain { width: 779px; background-color: #fff;}

#ContentBody { width: 579px; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000; background-color:yellow; text-align: left;}

#ContentRight { width: 200px; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000; background-color:green;}
</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="red">
<center>
<div id="Navigation"><span style="padding: 10px;">Home&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;SiteMap&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;Contac Us</span></div>
<div id="ContentMain">
<div id="ContentBody">A<br>B<br>A<br>B<br>A<br>B<br></div>
<div id="ContentRight">A<br>B</div>
</div>
</center>
</body>
</html> 

Please see http://tinyurl.co.uk/33te

In the div #maincontainer I have had to set a height of 480px just to get the background to show. You will see that in IE the background extends all the way down the page but in FF only by 480px

If I remove the height then the background doesn't show up in either IE or FF at all. This is confusing me because normally the background repeats fine all the way down without any height setting.

I don't want to set a fixed height because each page is different.

Also there's a gap above the main image in FF which I'd like to remove.

thanks for any help

css -

#maincontainer {
background-image: url(images/mainbackground.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
height: 480px;

}

Hey Guys,

as you see I'm new here and it would be quite cool if someone here can help me. i need this problem to be solved.. finally^^

So here's the problem:
I'm on starting a new website and the guy for the graphics sent me his design. Looks quite cool but there's one problem: There's a background which needs to be separated into three parts. To make my problem clear i made a short sketch, see he


As you see, Part I is always in the top left corner, ok that shouldn't be the problem. But here is where it gets tricky: No matter which screen resolution there is, Part II should show up in the top right corner. And the next Problem is: Part III should always be on the bottom, and these two things are a problem^^

Anyone got an idea? Would be quite yool if someone knows what to do..

Lukas

I'm using the following for a basic two column layout. I'd like the nav div to have a background, repeating horizontally once, but what I'm doing isn't working.

The other thing I'd like to do is restrict the hight of the div to exactly the hight of the background image...

Ideas?

Code:

<style type="text/css">
	body,
	html {
		margin:0;
		padding:0;
		background:url("./images/bg_test.gif") repeat-y center top;	
		color:#000;
	}
	body {
		min-width:962px;
	}
	#wrap {
		margin:0 auto;
		width:962px;
	}
	#header {
		background:#9c9;
	}
	#header h1 {
    	padding:5px;
	    margin:0;
    }
	#nav {

		background:url("./images/nav_bg.gif") repeat-x
		padding:5px;
		text-align: center;
	}
	#nav ul{
		margin:0;
		padding:0;
		list-style:none;
	}
	#nav li{
		display:inline;
		margin:0;
		padding:0;
	}
	#main {
		float:left;
		width:712px;
	}
	#main h2, #main h3, #main p {
		padding:0 10px;
    }
	#sidebar {
		float:right;
		width:240px;
	}
	#sidebar ul {
		margin-bottom:0;
    }
    #sidebar h3, #sidebar p {
		padding:0 10px 0 0;
    }
	#footer {
		background:#cc9;
		clear:both;
	}
	#footer p {
		padding:5px;
		margin:0;
    }
</style>

Hi mates. Can someone please give me some support on how to fix this. http://www.caprelations.com/cap.htm
That is the site im working on. The white in the back is a div, and I have applied width and height properties to it, but it seems not to follow that. You see I dont want the white to exceed down that far, I want it to stop right underneath where it says click here for brochure. Any idea on how to fix this?

Ok I have a two column layout, because of limitations set on the structure of the pages html (don't ask) the only way I could figure out of making the two columns both (visually) the same height (as their content will vary dynamically) is to do the following fudge - to put the background column images as the background to a container div which then I put the columns into:

Code:

#container {
	width: 620px;
	background: scroll url(<cfoutput>#path#</cfoutput>two_cols_bg.gif) repeat-y 2px 0px;
}

#left-column {
	padding-left: 2px;
	width: 178px;
	float: left;	
}

#right-column {
	width: 440px;
	float: right;
}

<!-- two main column container box -->
	<div id="container" name="container">
<!-- start left (search) column -->
		<div id="left-column" name="left-column">
                                             content
                                </div>
                                <div id="right-column" name="right-column">
                                             content
                                </div>
                   </div>

This works fine in IE (5.5 at least anyway) but netscape the background doesn't show through (even if I set the left & right column backgrounds manually to their default of transparent).

However the background does show up if I put some content directly into the container div, but only for the lines where content is there - it still doesn't show up behind either of the column divs.

Any ideas?

Also I'm using the name="" attribute as I'm sure I remember reading that some versions of NS don't like the id="" attribute and use name="" instead, but I can't find clarification on this.

Thanks in advance.

-D

Hello,
I'm currently developing a new website for a clan but Internet Explorer isn't displaying the background image of the content area correctly.

It pushes the content area ~4px to the right from where it should be. I've tried reducing the size of the navigation element but that didn't work and in fact had the opposite effect of what I was looking for.

For some reason I can't link to an image, nor to the site itself to show you the error.

This is the code applicable to the content area.
Code:

#content
{
	width:770px;
	background-image:url(images/backgrounds/conbg.png);
	background-repeat:repeat-y;
	font-size:11px;
	padding-right: 0px;
	padding-bottom: 0px;
	padding-left: 70px;
	margin-left: 130px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	vertical-align:top;
}

#contentlimit
{
	width:690px;
}

#condiv
{
	width:770px;
	margin-left: 130px;
	margin-right: 0px;
}

And this the Navigation element:
Code:

#nav
{
	width:130px;
	display:block;
	float:left;
	vertical-align:top;
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}

.mlink a
{
	display: block;
	color: #666666;
	background-image:url(images/backgrounds/link.jpg);
	width: 130px;
	padding: .0px .0px;
	height:15px;
	text-decoration: none;
	text-indent: 10px;
}

.mlink a:hover
{
	color: #333333;
	text-decoration: none;
	background-image:url(images/backgrounds/linkhov.jpg);
}

At last check, with this current style sheet, the code was valid.

Any help appreciated,
Cold