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Table backgrounds in HTML

  • 05-04-2000 12:48am
    #1
    harVee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 345 ✭✭


    what i am trying to do:
    have one big table which has a gif background. in the table there are little tables. these have no backgrounds

    what is wrong
    in netscape (not ie though) the background in the big table is fine. however, i get the same background "starting" in the little tables. this means that the pattern on the background goes out of sync.

    can any1 help?

    harVey


Comments

  • #2
    acous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭acous


    make sure none of the cell backgrounds are set. and just the table bg is set (theyre different things). unless its a bug in netscape thats all i can think of.


  • #3
    2040
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭2040


    I had the same problem ( http://homepage.eircom.net/~twenty/links.html - the menu is a table ) , it looked grand in ie but netscape it looks all weird.I wouldnt mind knowing why either.

    [This message has been edited by 2040 (edited 05-04-2000).]


  • #4
    SantaHoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,488 ✭✭✭SantaHoe


    gah! Table within a table within a table within a table within a table within a table within a frame.
    Thats a noodle scratcher...
    /me scratches head.

    Is there any other way you can do it, say with only one table? And just use more cells?
    the grotto


  • #5
    Hobbes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    Check your table tags. NS doesn't like badly coded Tables, where as IE will let you make a complete mess of things.

    Which help propogate 1000's of bad HTML programmers (at least until frontpage came out and converted thier webpages into 4MB D/L's).

    Oh yea, don't use tables within tables. Unless you don't want people coming back to your site again (as it will crash quite a few browsers).


    [This message has been edited by Hobbes (edited 05-04-2000).]


  • #6
    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    Tables within tables are to be avoided, though often they can't be and sometimes they are better than the alternative).

    Try giving the inner tables a transparent gif as their background.


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  • #7
    harVee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 345 ✭✭harVee


    transparent gif didn't work cos it's still a gif.
    the page is at http://www.csc.tcd.ie/~enviro . instead of a green background i wanted a grassy pattern but i don't have time.
    anyway cheers
    harVey


  • #8
    paw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭paw


    Talliesin is right, put a transparent gif as your bg image in your inner table.
    http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~paws/table.htm

    an example done for someone else.

    paw


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