Hello all, I am having fun with a page I have been creating, I cannot get it do do what I want it to do, I have 2 pages to look at both the same design taken from 2 different angles.<br />
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The first one here is the test page that I am working on, I want my finished page to be able to have a background on the left bar that will look correct, this page I have gotten that to work, but now I cannot put links in the left cell, to see this first page go to:<br />
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<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.marcusandmeagan.com/test.html">http://www.marcusandmeagan.com/test.html</a><!-- m --><br />
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The second page has the overall look I want the only thing that I don't like on this page is that I cannot put a background on the left table cell going down the whole left side, the reason for this is that there are 3 table rows going down the side and the backgrounds never break in the correct spot, plus I had to do some real playing with backgrounds to get this table to work on this page, i.e in the middle where the links are and there is a white indent that is done with a background not html. Please take a look and tell me what you think:<br />
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<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.marcusandmeagan.com">http://www.marcusandmeagan.com</a><!-- m --><br />
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I know that some of the colors and graphics are really bad, but I am not worried about that right now, I am just trying to get the html working the way I want it too, if you don't understand what I am wanting here please post and I will try to explain better. Thank you.<!--content-->backgrounds in tables is a tricky, tricky thing to get right, because different browsers will repeat the background in different ways across cells.<br />
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my suggestion would be to nest a table where you want the background (so you don't have to worry about breaking it across cells), and if you need to, use layers or <div> tags for placement.<br />
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alternately, you could slice & dice your image so that you have better control over the images, and use them as CELL backgrounds. that would probably be the easiest thing to do.<!--content-->
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The first one here is the test page that I am working on, I want my finished page to be able to have a background on the left bar that will look correct, this page I have gotten that to work, but now I cannot put links in the left cell, to see this first page go to:<br />
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<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.marcusandmeagan.com/test.html">http://www.marcusandmeagan.com/test.html</a><!-- m --><br />
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The second page has the overall look I want the only thing that I don't like on this page is that I cannot put a background on the left table cell going down the whole left side, the reason for this is that there are 3 table rows going down the side and the backgrounds never break in the correct spot, plus I had to do some real playing with backgrounds to get this table to work on this page, i.e in the middle where the links are and there is a white indent that is done with a background not html. Please take a look and tell me what you think:<br />
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<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.marcusandmeagan.com">http://www.marcusandmeagan.com</a><!-- m --><br />
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I know that some of the colors and graphics are really bad, but I am not worried about that right now, I am just trying to get the html working the way I want it too, if you don't understand what I am wanting here please post and I will try to explain better. Thank you.<!--content-->backgrounds in tables is a tricky, tricky thing to get right, because different browsers will repeat the background in different ways across cells.<br />
<br />
my suggestion would be to nest a table where you want the background (so you don't have to worry about breaking it across cells), and if you need to, use layers or <div> tags for placement.<br />
<br />
alternately, you could slice & dice your image so that you have better control over the images, and use them as CELL backgrounds. that would probably be the easiest thing to do.<!--content-->