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Problem with HTML/CSS "code"

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  1. mcseguy9

    mcseguy9 Thread Starter

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    **I just noticed that it won't display the code as is so I've removed most of the <>. I hope this makes sense.**

    I'm taking a class and it involves a tiny little bit of HTML and CSS "programming". Anyway, what you see below is straight from the book and it's not working!!! It's very irritating. I have the wallpaper.gif file in the same folder as the HTML file (it's name is bg-test2.html). I double click on the HTML file and I get 2 white cells with text in them. The cell on the right is supposed to have the wallpaper.gif image tiled horizontally. Any ideas what's not letting this work? I've gone over it half a dozen times and can't figure it out. Thanks for your help.

    html
    head
    style TYPE="text\css"
    <!-
    .bg2 {
    background-image: url(wallpaper.gif);
    background-repeat: repeat-x
    }
    //->
    /style
    /head
    body
    table HEIGHT="100%" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="1"
    tr
    td WIDTH="200" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
    some text
    /td
    td WIDTH="250" CLASS="bg2"
    some more text
    /td
    /tr
    /table
    /body
    /html
     
    mcseguy9, Jan 28, 2003
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  2. Rockn

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    Please post the code for the HTML as well as the CSS. Can't tell much from just the table there.
     
    Rockn, Jan 28, 2003
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  3. Shadow2531

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    I couldn't get it working by defining a css class so I just used a style attribute.

    PHP:
    <html> 
    <    head> 
    <    style type="text/css">
    </    style> 
    </    head> 
    <    body>
    <    table height="100%" width="100%" border="1">
    <    tr> 
    <    td width="200" bgcolor="#ffffff">some text</td> 
    <    td width="250" style="background-image:url(http://home.tbbs.net/shadow/mod_files/stars.jpg);
    background-repeat:no-x"    ><font color="#ffffff">some more text</font></td> 
    </    tr> 
    </    table> 
    </    body> 
    </    html>
    I put in a working url so you can see that it works.

    Just put wallpaper.gif back in for the url.

    Just keep in mind that the above method might not work in opera 7b2. Of course it still works in the stable opera 6.05. I also tested it will all other browsers. It should work.

    as for defining a css class,

    it seems like the background image url part of a td css class doesn't affect the table cell.

    but if you want to try it you should use the following example for defining a td class

    PHP:
    <style type="text/css">
    td.bg2 {then your settings};
    </    style>
    I tried that though and could not get it to work for a background image. However defining fonts etc for the td worked fine. Just the background image wouldn't work.
     
    Shadow2531, Jan 29, 2003
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  4. bassetman

    bassetman Moderator (deceased) - Gone but never forgotten

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    I think Shadow2531 found an important item.
    May want to check www.htmlgoodies.com for more background if you need support info for your class.
     
    bassetman, Jan 29, 2003
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  5. Shadow2531

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    opera 7.0 final is out.

    I tested the style attribute from above with opera 7.0 and it works. so it should work well in all the browsers.
     
    Shadow2531, Jan 29, 2003
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  6. mcseguy9

    mcseguy9 Thread Starter

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    Thanks a million, guys. I appreciate the help.
     
    mcseguy9, Jan 29, 2003
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  7. Shadow2531

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    ok I figured it out the right way.

    PHP:
    <html> 
    <    head> 
    <    style type="text/css"> 
    td {background-image:url(http://home.tbbs.net/shadow/mod_files/stars.jpg); 
    background-repeat:no-x;}
    td.off {background-image: none; }
    </    style> 
    </    head> 
    <    body> 
    <    table height="100%" width="100%" border="1"> 
    <    tr> 
    <    td class="off" width="200" bgcolor="#ffffff" >some text</td> 
    <    td width="250" ><font color="#ffffff">some more text</font></td> 
    </    tr> 
    </    table> 
    </    body> 
    </    html>
    the above way defines a background image for every td. then you use the td class off to turn off the background of a td that you don't want to have a background.

    Obviously you could choose not define the standard td and then just define td.on and for each cell that you want to have a background, you would use class = " on " like this

    PHP:
    <html> 
    <    head> 
    <    style type="text/css"> 
    td.on {background-image:url(http://home.tbbs.net/shadow/mod_files/stars.jpg); 
    background-repeat:no-x;}
    </    style> 
    </    head> 
    <    body> 
    <    table height="100%" width="100%" border="1"> 
    <    tr> 
    <    td width="200" bgcolor="#ffffff" >some text</td> 
    <    td width="250" class="on" ><font color="#ffffff">some more text</font></td> 
    </    tr> 
    </    table> 
    </    body> 
    </    html>
    not sure why I couldn't get it to work before, but that works
     
    Shadow2531, Feb 4, 2003
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