tiling background image behind posts

[MobileHacks]

Put a tiling background image behind posts in showthread.

I know it's a pretty small mod but I have seen it asked a fair bit here and on vB.com so I figure maybe one or two folk might find this helpful.

Create your tiling image.
Name it posttile.jpg
upload posttile.jpg to your skins misc folder.

Attached is a nice christmassy example you could use for default skins:

Add the following to your skins Additional CSS Definitions (changing your_skins_name_here to your skins name!):

.posttiler {
   background-color: #F7F7F7;
   background-image:    url(images/your_skins_name_here/misc/posttile.jpg);
   background-repeat:   repeat;
   background-position: top center;
}

save

Open:

postbit

Find:

tr>
    <if condition="$show['moderated']">
    <td class="alt2" id="td_post_$post[postid]">
    <else />
    <td class="alt1" id="td_post_$post[postid]">
    </if>    
    <!-- message, attachments, sig -->

        $template_hook[postbit_messagearea_start]

        <if condition="$show['messageicon'] OR $post['title']">

 

[SirGarfield]

Nice of you to bother crediting the original author, trying to make it look like yours I suppose, you're so sad!!
By the way, you must have been posting just as I was,

 

[MobileHacks]

did i even say it was mine you idot!!!!!

 

[Psilocybin_vbulletin3_import6855]

Nice of you to bother crediting the original author, trying to make it look like yours I suppose, you're so sad!!
By the way, you must have been posting just as I was,

I doubt he is trying to take credit for this. Many hacks posted here are copied right from vb.org, so the text may that of the original authors. I sometimes forget to change some text in posts which may make it seem like I'm trying to take credit when in reality I just copied the text.

Play nice!

 

[SirGarfield]

did i even say it was mine you idot!!!!!

MobileHacks, what's an idot ?

I doubt he is trying to take credit for this. Many hacks posted here are copied right from vb.org, so the text may that of the original authors. I sometimes forget to change some text in posts which may make it seem like I'm trying to take credit when in reality I just copied the text.

Play nice!

You are right in some respects psilocybin (shrooms are my fav! ), I spoke with The Reverend about it and he said he doesn't much care, he said it would have been nice to have been credited but the important thing to him is that knowledge gets shared, and that's all he's really worried about, so I'm at peace with it.

 

[Xexiu]

I open postbit, found that code mentioned...now what do I need to add after or below it?

 

[sixxkilur]

find

<tr>
    <if condition="$show['moderated']">
    <td class="alt2" id="td_post_$post[postid]">
    <else />
    <td class="alt1" id="td_post_$post[postid]">
    </if>    
    <!-- message, attachments, sig -->

        $template_hook[postbit_messagearea_start]

        <if condition="$show['messageicon'] OR $post['title']">

and replace

<td class="[b][color=Red]alt1[/color][/b]" id="td_post_$post[postid]">

and replace with

<td class="[b][color=Red]posttiler[/color][/b]" id="td_post_$post[postid]">