CSS - Css Background Images Disappearing

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.

Hi

I have a table which i want to add 2 background images too.
what i have is. one image with no-repeat at the top. Then for the rest of the table, i want to have a gradient background. Is this possible?

K. I have my content bg which is to repeat, but I want to put like another background image set to the right in the content box.
HTML Coding
*************
<div id="special_feature_top">
<img src="images/specialfeatures.jpg" width="800" height="30" alt="" />
</div>

<div id="special_feature_mid">
<img src="images/imagegalleryfeature.jpg" width="193" height="178" alt="Image Gallery" />
<img src="images/jointodayfeature.jpg" width="193" height="178" alt="Join Battle Glory Today!" />
<img src="images/forumsfeature.jpg" width="193" height="178" alt="Forums" />
</div>

<div id="special_feature_btm">
<img src="images/specialfeatures_btm.jpg" width="800" height="30" alt="" />
</div>


CSS Coding
*************
#special_feature_mid {
padding: 1px 0px 1px 10px;
background-image: url('images/content_bg.jpg');
}

That's the coding for the image now just with the content_bg. Now the other image I just want set to the background also so text can over lap or other images. It's a really nice opacity image that blends in perfect. I just want it in background also positioned to the right. thanks

Matta

Is there some way to rig CSS to display 2 separate background images. I wanted to put the 2 images on opposite sides. I tried, but both IE 6 and Firefox 1.0.2 displayed only 1 bg image. Anyone got a suggestion?

Edit - Oh yeah...this is for the BODY tag. I thought I ought to mention that.

Hi Folks,
I've designed an H1 page heading within a DIV with rounded ends. and HTML text inbetween. It should appear as a horizontally expanding and contracting capsule. I can make one end rounded with a CSS background image in the DIV or the H1 - but how can I do the other? No tables allowed here and it has to be done only in the stylesheet. I've tried a BG in the DIV and a BG in the H1 but they don't line-up, even when there's no padding or margins.

Is it possible to somehow attach an image to one side of an element?
Thanks
John

I have a site that will be relying heavily on background images sitting behind all the tables. These backgrounds will work in concert with the overall background-color: property.

My question is this, on the style sheet, of which I would like to have ONE. Is there a way to change entire background-images for each page within the site.

In another post, we went over how to change images within the same <div> by simply making the <div> a holder and swapping the image on each page by using something like:

<div id="image" class="page_two">

Is there a way to do something similar using an entire background image? Or do I need a separate style sheet for each page? Perhaps the main style sheet which has a body like this

body
{
margin:0px;
}

and then attach an additional style sheet to each page that supersedes the body tag in the main sheet?

I hope I am making sense...


thanks

jon

Hi there,

hopefully someone can help me out with some background image issues. I simply want a right hand section on my site, where i can fill it with content and it can expand appropriately as per the content and display a top, middle and bottom background image.

this is because the style of the site has curved edges, so this will be a top image with the curves, a centre image and a bottom image with bottom curves.

here is my code but none of the top or bottom background images show.

please help, thanking you in advance.

css:
#feature {
float:right;
width: 287px;
height: auto;
}
.featuretop {
background-image:url(../images/css/featuretop.gif);
background-position:top;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
.featuremiddle {
background-image:url(../images/css/feature.gif);
background-position:center;
background-repeat:repeat-y;
}
.featurebottom {
background-image:url(../images/css/featurebottom.gif);
background-position:bottom;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}


html code:
<div id="feature">
<div class="marTOP10">
<div class="featuretop"></div>
<div class="featuremiddle"></div>
<div class="featurebottom"></div>
</div>
</div>

Hello, I'm new to Dev Shed, I hope I won't seem like a fool here


Is there any way to have to background images?
I mean, I want to have a heading background image, and a footer background image to the same table.

longing to your replies>>>>

Hello, as the subject states I have a question about whether IE can display a background image on a tr and a td correctly. I have a table row with a repeating background then in the first cell in that row I have another background image that goes in the top left corner with a transparent background color on the cell so that the tr background can show though.

This works as it should in all browsers except IE where only the td background image appears and its transparent to the page background not the tr background.

This is the css:
Code:

.professor_forum_row {
	background: #ffffff url(../images/author_post_background.jpg) repeat top left;
}

.professor_corner_tab {
	background: transparent url(../images/article_sticky_author.jpg) no-repeat top left;
}

the html is just a table with those classes assigned to the row and first td.

Any ideas on why this is happening?

Thanks,
Ryan

Is it possible without any client side scripting to load in backgrounda.gif for 800x600 resolution and backgroundb.gif for any other resolution?

Server side scripting is ok but I was hoping for a CSS method although I am pretty sure it's not possible.

Hi

I have 3 background images that make up the background for my navigation you can see here http://dmumford.bizhat.com/test/about.htm

When viewed in FF and Netscape it breaks in 3 positions, in IE just below the top image.

Does anyone know why, and can they please help me

Thanks

Hello Community,

I'll get cracking with my code and explain all below.

My CSS;

Code:

html, body { height:100%; margin:0; padding:0; font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; background:url(../_images/stretch_header.jpg) repeat-x top left; }

body { text-align:center; font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; background:url(../_images/stretch_header.jpg) repeat-x top left; }

#outer { min-height:100%; height:auto; width:987px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; position:relative; text-align:left; background:url(../_images/stretch_body.jpg) repeat-y top left; }
* html #outer { height:100%; width:987px; w\idth:987px; background:url(../_images/stretch_body.jpg) repeat-y top left; }

#contentContainer { width:100%; overflow:auto; }

#headerContainer { margin:0px auto; width:987px; height:117px; background:url(../_images/stretch_header.jpg) repeat-x top left; }

#centerContent { width:735px; float:right; padding:10px 10px 15px 10px; }

#footerContainer { position:absolute; bottom:0; left:0; width:100%; height:61px; text-align:center; background:url(../_images/stretch_footer.jpg) repeat-x top left; }
#footer { width:987px; height:61px; background:url(../_images/footer.jpg) no-repeat top left; }
#clearfooter { clear:both; height:61px; width:100%; }

My HTML;

Code:

<body>

 <div id="outer">

  <div id="contentContainer">
   <div id="headerContainer"></div>
   <div id="centerContent">a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br></div>
   <div id="clearfooter"></div>
  </div>

  <div id="footerContainer">
   <div id="footer"></div>
  </div>

 </div>

</body>

At the moment you will be able to see that this layout is a 1 column, centered layout. As it stands it works very well. However what I am trying to accomplish now is causing problems.

You can see from my CSS that I have 3 Background Images (stretch_header, stretch_body, stretch_footer). These are to stretch 100% of the browser, width, height, width respectively.

The problem I have is that I only have enough elements present to use 2 of these backgrounds.

stretch_header - put on the body/html works perfectly 100% width.
stretch_body - put on the "outer" div works perfectly 100% height.

This means I don't have another 100% width div to put the stretch_footer on. Every time I try to include a new div, using "position" or "float" cause various div to remove themselves from the document flow, and cause errors.

The reason for the excess "a<br>" is to force the document out of the workspace and make sure it still retains it's rigidity when combined with content.

So basically i'm asking how can I include another div to include the footer background 100% width.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi all.
I've tried searching the net but every solution either isn't applicable or doesn't work.

My problem is that all my CSS background images are not displaying at all in ie7.

they are called in via link id.
so:
PHP Code:
<a href="javascript:void(0)" id="cus" onClick="changeCus()"><img src="/images/space.gif" height="30" width="50" alt="" title="Customer Ratings" /></a> 




fairly simple stuff.
the corresponding css is
PHP Code:
 a#cus{background:url("../images/custM.png")no-repeat;left:-140px} 





I have treid changing the link as in ../../images... but that was dumb.
Adding a background position.
Adding display:inline.
Adding display:block.

Can anyone please aligten me as to why all my css images are failing.

It works fine in FireFox.
My doctype is set to strict.
It is the correct path to the images.
The images are on the server.

Any help would be greatly apprcieated.
Thanks in advance
Jaza

Ive got three divs all nested in a row. The idea is to have the main div (body tag) contain the background image that composes the color. Then the next div contains the upper left hand image and the next div contains the lower right hand image.

The problem is this. When I specify "top-left" for the image the image is positioned to the top left. When I specify "bottom-right" for the image in the next div, instead of going to the bottom right, the image ends up all the way over on the top left. why is that?

here are my three divs:

Code:

body {
  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-size: 12px;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0px;
  border: 3px solid black;
  background-image: url(http://www.doublethinkdesigns.com/pics/dtdbg.jpg);
  background-repeat: repeat;
/*
*/
}



div#outer {
  margin: 0px;
  border: 3px solid white;
  background-image: url(http://www.doublethinkdesigns.com/pics/upper-left-fan.gif);
  background-position: top-left;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;

}

div#inner {
  margin: 0px;
  border: 3px solid black;
  background-image: url(http://www.doublethinkdesigns.com/pics/lower-right-samurai.gif);
  background-position: right;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;

}

I'm trying to adapt a technique I saw on matthewjamestaylor 's website to a design for my site that involves overlapping divs with background images. I can't get one of them to show up, and I'm not sure why?

I'm using nested divs to get equal column heights. I need different background images on a number of elements.

Here's the overall structu

<body> - has an image background that repeats.
<wrapper> - has an image background that repeats.
<header>
<navbar> - has a background image that doesn't repeat.
</navbar>

<banner>
</banner>
</header>
<colmask>
<colright>
<content>
<main> - has a background image that doesn't repeat.
</main>
<sidebar> - has a background image that doesn't repeat.
</sidebar>
</content>
</colright>
</colmask>
<footer> - has a background image that doesn't repeat.
</footer>
</wrapper>
</body>

I also need a background image on either colmask, colright, or content as well, and it's not showing up! I can't figure out why. It's a border image that should show up between the sidebar background and the main content background. Any idea why it's not expanding to fill it?

I'm uploading my site to elenmir dot com / themes / elenmir / default dot html

Thanks