HTML - Table Backgrounds

I'm going to be building a website, and instead of adding color to the background of the page, I'm going to add an image of a scene. How can I add it so that the image does not scroll but the content does. I've seen it done in the past.


Thank you.

Alrighty,

I've got div backgrounds that aren't showing up! Some are showing in ie but not in firefox, and some aren't showing anywhere.

Here is a screenshot of what I'm experiencing (IE is on the left, firefox on the right)



Also, the light blue background around the top nav. should be behind the page content as well (meaning the crappy "multi-monitor mounts" image and the crappier "featured products" text)

any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

Good day. I'm actually trying to make a good site now (still humorous), and am having problems with the background of my right collum. http://web.vtc.edu/users/cjb06271/CI...nal/order.html
Quote:
<form method="post" action="mailto:cjb06271@vtc.edu">
<table style="border:1px solid black">
<tr>
<td><fieldset/>The always favorite Locusts.
</td>
<td colspan="1"><fieldset/>
<input type="checkbox" value="Locusts" name="Locusts"/>
</td>
</tr>
</form>
same kind of thing happening on register page. you can see how I wanted it on any of the other pages. Also on the navbar you can see the right collum background image was chopped in half. Not too worries about that but if an easy fix would be apreciated

http://web.vtc.edu/users/cjb06271/CI.../real%20final/
my css is in there (as are links to images and all the other sites in navbar) css name is new1.

I may also be halucinating but the text seems to change fonts between pages and I don't know why.

Thank you very much for any help you may offer.

Hi everyone-

I have a pretty simple question, I think. I made some banners for my site to add on put I'd prefer to have them stay on the top of the page even when you scroll down. Currently, I have them as a background that is fixed in one position but the only problem is that all of the rest of the page's content goes on top of the image. I would prefer not to use frames so I guess I am asking is there any other way to keep something at the top of the page and on top of everything else and/or is it possible to have you're background image remain on top of the rest of the page's content?
Thanks for your time-

I've moved away from the difficult Liquid background and have came up with a more simpler solution...yet i still need help here, amazing isnt it?

So heres what im trying to do; notice the word "trying". I have a plain background colour ( a dark green ), I then added a layer containing a image of parchment to set the background for text, which i then centered on the page so this fixes the problem of people with different screen resolutions. I now want to add text, so i made another layer, typed the text for the welcome page, and clicked centre....uh ohhh, guess what? It didnt work! I then tried copying codes from the first table i centered, but it simply refuses to hate me and doesnt work. If you cant visulise what im trying to get i drew a pretty picutre for you; Link shown below.

http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z...nt=Website.jpg

So heres the big question. How do i set the writing to be centered on the page ( not centered text, the text is left alligned but i need it to apear in the centre of the page), and a certain amount of pixles from the top so as it will always fit on the background parchment layer wihtout moving about all over the place?

Many Thanks, Nathan

Hi.
I'm a FP/html/website builder noob.
Is there a way to change all fonts/all backgrounds in FP2003/with html?

e.g. Is there an easy way to change all fonts in headers, text areas, tables etc from one font to another.

Thanks.

Hi, I can make basic websites but I am not very skilled in web design. I am in need of help.

Since I made the website inside Photoshop using slices, I need to create a table at the center of the website. Since the center of the website is made of slices of jpeg images, I cannot create a table nor add any text here without disturbing the images.

I can get around this by making the pictures part of the cell background, but when I try and remove the images in the center after, the cell background images repeat over and over, and the whole website is unaligned and a big mess! Below is a picture of what I mean...



I have included a zip file containing my html pages and image folder. Please download it he

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stephan.../Portfolio.zip

The file I need help with is work.html. I can ensure you it's virus free. I want to show my photoshop work off on a website, this is the reason why I am making this website.

For some reason the text and links on the following page are not working... as in you can't click on them. At first they wouldn't show over the background, and now they do but they don't function. Why? How do I fix that? Also, how do I get the iframe background to be transparent against that image so it all flows together and do I need to do anything to ensure that the iframe comes up? Why doesn't it show?

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Fresh Sessions</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />

<style type="text/css">
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#bg img{
position:fixed;
top:0;
left:0;
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
}
#content {
position:relative;
z-index:1;
}
</style>

<!--[if IE 6]>
<style type="text/css">
html { overflow-y: hidden; }
body { overflow-y: auto; }
#bg { position:absolute; z-index:-1; }
#content { position:static; }
</style>
<![endif]-->



</head>
<body style="overflow: hidden">

<div id="bg"><img src="skates/shred.jpg" width="100%" height="100%" style="opacity:0.4;filter:alpha(opacity=40)"></div>

<div id="content">

<center><h1>FRESH SESSIONS</h1>
<br><a href="about.html" target="steezbox">About</a> 
<a href="" target="steezbox">Max & Mike</a> 
<a href="" target="steezbox">Pricing</a> 
<a href="" target="steezbox">Safety</a> 
<a href="" target="steezbox">Links</a> </center>

</div>

<iframe src="about.html" name="steezbox" align="middle" width="400" height="100%" scrolling=no frameborder=0>
  <p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p>
</iframe>

</body>
</html>

I would like to know if there is such a thing as a tag within a table, that can collapse if the next table within that prior one gets too big to center?

Here is an example of a part of my code:

Code:

      <table style="width:757; border-style:solid; border-width:thin; margin:0 0 15px 0">
       <tr><td class="spb-category" width="750" style="text-align:left;" colspan="3">Title of this category</td></tr>       
       <tr>
        <td valign="top" width="33%">
         <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
          <tr><td width="100%" onmouseover="this.style.background='#ddddff';" onmouseout="this.style.background='#ffffff';"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td class="spb-book"><a href="product_info.php?products_id=103">large size book title with author</a></td></tr><tr><td class="spb-author">Author</td></tr></table></td></tr>
          <tr><td width="100%" onmouseover="this.style.background='#ddddff';" onmouseout="this.style.background='#ffffff';"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td class="spb-book"><a href="product_info.php?products_id=187">small sized book</a></td></tr><tr><td class="spb-author">Author</td></tr></table></td></tr>
          <tr><td width="100%" onmouseover="this.style.background='#ddddff';" onmouseout="this.style.background='#ffffff';"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td class="spb-book"><a href="product_info.php?products_id=197">small sized book</a></td></tr><tr><td class="spb-author">Author</td></tr></table></td></tr>
         </table>        </td>
        <td valign="top" width="33%">
         <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
          <tr><td width="100%" onmouseover="this.style.background='#ddddff';" onmouseout="this.style.background='#ffffff';"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td class="spb-book"><a href="product_info.php?products_id=101">small sized book</a></td></tr><tr><td class="spb-author">Author</td></tr></table></td></tr>
          <tr><td width="100%" onmouseover="this.style.background='#ddddff';" onmouseout="this.style.background='#ffffff';"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td class="spb-book"><a href="product_info.php?products_id=188">small sized book</a></td></tr><tr><td class="spb-author">Author</td></tr></table></td></tr>
          <tr><td width="100%" onmouseover="this.style.background='#ddddff';" onmouseout="this.style.background='#ffffff';"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td class="spb-book"><a href="product_info.php?products_id=120">Medium sized boot title</a></td></tr><tr><td class="spb-author">Author</td></tr></table></td></tr>
         </table>        </td>
        <td valign="top" width="33%">
         <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
          <tr><td width="100%" onmouseover="this.style.background='#ddddff';" onmouseout="this.style.background='#ffffff';"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td class="spb-book"><a href="product_info.php?products_id=102">a very long title of a book which includes the author</a></td></tr><tr><td class="spb-author">Author</td></tr></table></td></tr>
         </table>
        </td>
       </tr>
      </table>

1. I want to center each column so that the first letter of each book title is lined-up, but that the longest title on each column has equal space on both left and right.

2. If you look at each column, the width is about 245px. With regard to the first book title in the first column, I have 50px that is extra, therefore I'd like to automatically add 25px to the front of each one of the books for that column.

3. On the second column, there is about 80px extra, therefore I'd like to auto-add 40px to the front of each book in that column.

My problem is that I don't want the column centered individually because then I will lose the straight line that I'd like each book to be on top of each other as it starts the line.

I tried:
style="margin-left:20px"
and
style="padding-left:20px"
but when the title got too long it would not auto-collapse the left side, I want it to collapse!

I want one tag that I can insert evenly on every section to get the push to the right an even amount of spaces for every book on each column.

If it comes down to it, I wouldn't mind sacrificing that each column gets auto aligned to what is necessary for its own column. So if I have to use one number, say 30px, for the whole webpage, then ok, I'd do it.

My problem is that sometimes the 30px empty filler space for the left, in order to push the title to the right, is not enough space for a very long title and it winds up sending half the title to the next line, which I don't want.

This code is a list of books that spans about 20 categories and about 400 book titles.

Thanks in advance for any help you might offer.

I will be brief in hoping that the issue does not require a thesis to properly fix. I'm dealing with tables within tables..within tables. In one instance, I have a 2x1 (row by column) table inside another table. So, we'll call the inside table "B" and the outside table "A". Table B is centered inside a column in Table A. I'm trying to maximize the space, but nearly nothing works. Setting Table B height=100% does nothing. The only thing that works is setting the height=N px, where N is a number. This is no good, as I want to the site to work on all resolutions. I want it to be proportional. How can I fix this?

Here's what I'm dealing with, visually:



Any help would be welcome. Thanks.

Here is an image depicting the trouble I'm having:



I want to make a table, consisting of many cells. These cells would be fixed, and *very different* in sizes.

It's easy to make a no-space table when all the images are exactly the same size, but when you have images with a variety of sizes, the table doesn't fit perfectly.

Basically I want to create a collage of images with overlay text on each image. My idea was that I could create a table, and each cell (td) would have a background which is the image. Then I could just type in that cell, so the text would be over the image.
Then I'd do this for every one of my images, and a collage would be formed.

The problem is, the table makes large white spaces wherever the image sizes don't match!

How do I get rid of these spaces, or is there an entirely different code/approach I should be using?

Thanks!

Here is my current code:

HTML Code:

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
table.nospace {
        padding: 0; margin: 0;
        border-collapse: collapse;
}
table.nospace tr {
        padding: 0; margin: 0;
}
table.nospace td {
        padding: 0; margin: 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<TABLE class="nospace" width="2040px" height="2000px" cellspacing="0px" cellpadding="0px">
<TR>

<td valign="top">
<table><tr>
<TD WIDTH="800px" HEIGHT="800px" BACKGROUND="image.jpg" VALIGN="bottom">
<h1><FONT COLOR=#ffffff>text</FONT></h1>
</TD></tr></table>
</td>

<td valign="top">
<table><tr>
<TD WIDTH="700" HEIGHT="497" BACKGROUND="image" VALIGN="bottom">
<h1><FONT COLOR=#ffffff>Text</FONT></h1>
</TD></tr></table>
</td>

<td valign="top">
<table><tr>
<TD WIDTH="700" HEIGHT="467" BACKGROUND="image.jpg" VALIGN="bottom">
<h1><FONT COLOR=#ffffff>Text</FONT></h1>
</TD></tr></table>
</td>

</TR>
</TABLE>

</body>
</html>

The table itself is working fine, but the size of each cell is not correct in Firefox.
Here is a screenshot of what is happening:

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/1938/tabletroubles.gif


Here is the head of my page, the css for the table is he

HTML Code:

<style type="text/css">
#cat table {border:0px solid #333333; cell-padding:0; cell-spacing:0; align=center} 
#cat tr {align=center}
#cat td {font-size: 13px; font-family=tahoma; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; border:0px solid #333333; align=center;} 
#cat td a {text-decoration: none; color:#757575; background-color: white; display:block; height=23; background-image: url(linkbg1.gif); align=center;} 
#cat td a:hover {background-color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;color: #ffffff; background-image: url(linkbg2.gif); align=center;} 
</style>

and here is the table code, located in the body of the page:

HTML Code:

<div style="Height:53px; overflow:auto; width:900px; position:absolute; top:0; left:0">


<TABLE bgcolor=#333333 cellspacing=0; cellpadding=0;><tr><td>

<div id="cat"> 

<table width=900; cellpadding:0px; cellspacing:0px> 
<tr align=center> 
<td width=20%>
<font face=tahoma><a href="home.html">Home</a></font>
</td>
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="openings.html" target="_top">Openings</a></font></center></td> 
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="dance.html" target="_top">Dance</a></font></center></td> 
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="projects.html" target="_top">Projects</a></font></center></td> 
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="vocaloid.html" target="_top">Vocaloid</a></font></center></td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="fanflashes.html" target="_top">Fanflashes</a></font></center></td> 
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="caramelldansen.html" target="_top">Caramelldansen</a></font></center></td> 
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="cosplay.html" target="_top">Cosplay</a></font></center></td>
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="endings.html" target="_top">Endings</a></center></td>
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="anime.html" target="_top">Anime Episodes</a></font></font></center></td> 
</tr> 
</table>


</div> 
</td></tr></table> 
</div>

A table is nested within another table. The table on the outside has no content, it is there to make a gray border around everything else.

If you look at the table in firefox & internet explorer, you'll see that in IE- the table is much thicker than in firefox. How can i make it so that the table in Firefox will have the same thickness as the one in IE? I could really use some help. Thanks!

Hello,
I am newbie, just has started my adventure with html.

I tried to make an easy static site, without any additional thingd, but it occured a problem.
1. I mean, as I put table in table
because I did know how to to id in different way, to make buttons on the left stay up while text on the right is moving- if I do normal table with 2columns and on the left lets say 5rows for buttons, on the right I unite all rows to make one big sort of box for contents, as I go down and try to write something morre, the rows from the letf were enlarging too
If the size of explorer or firefox is nor full screen, the text in contents is going away (like now in lycos server, where screen is not full, but "cut" by advertise)

2. I have highlighted buttons, but not always works, why? (i mean it works, but darker buttons are charging so slow- maybe it is so because i saved them in pgn instead in gif, and each one is about 50kb?)
-probably it is not this- because I have just changed into gif, and it is still the same

3. Another problem, as I post the site, I have notice, that in firefox I can not navigate with buttons, while in explorer yes, is it a fault of my coding, or of server where I put website?

Here I post my website:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/aniaacolgate/

Could someone take a look on the code, and will be so kind to correct me?
It is a basic easy site of very begginger

I just wanted to make a shape like this:
- top: a banner
- buttons in horizontal and vertical way
- under buttons: contents (sincerly would like to put frames, but do not know how to put them there, is on the left there r buttons

Thank you so much in advance for reply
Sorry for mistakes in language

I have a list within a table and much of the content has links to two different javascript codes. One is a popup javascript to so that I can control the window size and the other is a toggle.display javascript to show/hide specific details about my list. The scripts run fine, but for some odd reason the content in my table gets cut off randomly towards the end of the list.

I went through to make sure that I didn't have any div tags nested.. etc.. and i'm now at a complete loss as to why my content within the table gets randomly cut off.

Any help would me much appreciated. The link for the site is he http://netimpact.org/displaycommon.c...rticlenbr=2440. You'll notice at the very bottom of the table it randomly stops..

Hi, i'm completely new with HTML. I'm making a website for a student activity group i'm in. We chose for me, because i had a little javascript experience. Thats more than most of us.

Here goes the story. We are organizing a trip for other students. The students can enroll for the trip on the website. The form uses the following code;

Code:

<?php
$myFile = "enrollments.php";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a+') or die("can't open file");
$stringData ="<tr><td>".$_POST["name"]."</td><td>".$_POST["tel"]."</td><td>".$_POST["mail"]."</td><td>".$_POST["rnumber"]."</td><td>".$_POST["shirt"]."</td><td>".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."</td><td>".date("d-m, G:i:s")."</td></tr>\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
?>

Named post.php
The code results in a simple file with only <tr>info</tr><tr>info2</tr>. Another page uses the following code to show the enrollments


Code:

<table id='enrollments'><tr><th>Name</th><th>Tel</th><th>Mail</th><th>Reknumber</th><th>Shirt</th><th></th><th>IP</th><th>Time</th></tr>
<?php include('enrollments.php'); ?>
</table>

named showenroll.html


Right. So far so good. Now we'd like to show the students which are thinking about enrolling howmany other students already have enrolled. In other words, i'd like to count the number of rows in the "showenroll.html" and display that in the index.html.

Ive found trough google the var (document.getElementById('ID')). However, i'm not able to add this var to the index.html, and direct it to a element ID on another page. As most newbs would do, i've tried document.getElementById('./showenroll/enrollments')
I'm wondering if anyone could tell me how i can direct the document.getElementById to an element id that is not on the same page. And, if this is impossible, how i can make a counter of the enrollments



Drayn
p.s. ive tried to search this forum on table row counter, but it didn't provide the right solution(s?) for me.