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Re: Emulating 2 background images

Sent by Chuck Harmston on 2 November 2004 09:09


>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!

Here was my original post...somebody posted asking for a url
demonstrating the problem:

URL: http://www.meforme.net/test/
CSS: http://www.meforme.net/test/css/screen.css

Thanks again everyone!
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