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Emulating 2 background images

Sent by Zoe M. Gillenwater on 1 November 2004 14:02


Chuck Harmston wrote:

>I'm trying to set up a flexible-width layout with 50px margins on both
>the right and left sides.  In these margins I have images which I
>would like to tile vertically along the page, but I am having trouble
>getting both images to tile correctly in Gecko-based browsers without
>additional whitespace.
>
>My initial idea was to onion skin the entire layout.  Set the body
>background to the left image, and set an enclosing div around the
>entire layout with a 100% width, and tile the right-side background
>inside of this.  It looks good in IE, but there is extra whitespace in
>Firefox on both the top and bottom sides in which the background
>doesn't show.  I have all margins and borders for all elements set to
>0, so it is not an issue of that.  I'm trying to avoid absolute
>positioning if possible, as it will wreck havoc with the rest of my
>layout.  Does anybody have any ideas?  I'm open to about anything!
>  
>

Can you send us a link to a page showing the problem?  It's hard to say 
what the problem might be without seeing the markup and CSS.

Thanks,
Zoe

-- 
Zoe M. Gillenwater
Design Specialist
Highway Safety Research Center
http://www.hsrc.unc.edu

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