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This should be an easy answer.
I have a table, I would like to add a background image to it
what is the code to put in the <table>

Thanks

try background="image.jpg"
but im not sure...

If that doesn't do it, try the CSS way: <table style="background-image: url(image.jpg);">

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[This message has been edited by brucew (edited 05-03-2002).]

Yes, it is an easy question, with an easy answer.

However, if you are at a stage where you need to ask such a question, it is eveident that learning HTML might be in order.

That may sound like an obvious suggestion, but please take it - for your own sake as well as ours.

Follow these links -
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/intro.html http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/#tutorials

And read everything you can. Then go play in your webspace.

Both Grumble and brucew ( and of course DL-44) are right.

I would just be careful doing this. If you have an image with a lot of stuff and set the width to a percentage the image will expand and contract on screen size. May not want that. Usually best to put things like that in an absolute sized table.

There are ways to make the background repeat nicely with the size of the screen though. check out the top header of mr.maX page http://www.maxworld.co.yu

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background="image.jpg"

...supposedly. I hear NN 4.x doesn't like it.

It's not that NN4+ doesn't like it except it has a bad habit of rerendering the background in embedded tables so you need to set the background of the embedded table to a transparent gif



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Whoa... I could have sworn when I posted that, no one else had replied yet. I must be out of it. Gotta get more sleep...

I know html very well, I just havn't put a background into a table in a long time. i tried background="grid.jpg" but it didn't show. Then I realized that the grid.jpg wasn't in the right place. LOL

Thanks for your help

Yes, you have to be absolutely sure of where the background image is, otherwise it won't work. I was once trying to make a website, and it took me almost two weeks to figure out where the image was. You need to make sure wether it's a JPEG file or a GIF file, otherwise it will be looking for something in the wrong format, and that would be bad.

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I posted a good Netscape 4.x fix last week sometime, see Table background and Netscape 4.7 , you *can* have one full image filling a table, yet also have cells with different things. Easy fix, but not too obvious.

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