Background doesn't display in Preview Window

A

Amanda George

I have a Christmas .gif background image that I am using for one of my web
pages. I have FrontPage XP. I can view the background in Normal view, but I
cannot see it in Preview view nor in browser view. Why may this be? I can
see other .gif images in both views. And I have the image saved in my web
directory in FrontPage. Please advise, thank you.
 
A

Amanda George

<html>

<head>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>sample page</title>
</head>

<body background="candy.gif">

</body>

</html>
 
S

Steve Easton

Is the image in the same folder / location as the page using it??
If not, or if it is in the images folder, the file path is wrong.

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Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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Amanda George

It is in the same directory as the page. I just tried another .jpg image in
the same location, and I was able to preview that. If the file is an
animated gif could that be causing the problem?
 
S

Steve Easton

That could be the issue, especially if it is an image that has to "tile" many times to fill the
screen.
Try making it the background of a main table and see what happens.

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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Amanda George

I tried to make it the background on one cell in the table and it didn't work
in preview either...must be something with the graphic.
 
A

Amanda George

File preview in browser doesn't work either. I can add the image to the
page, but when I preview, it shows an outline square box w/ a little red x
inside of it, like the image cannot be displayed.
 
S

Steve Easton

Ok, find the image using Windows Explorer, right click it, select "Open With" and then select
Internet Explorer.
It should open in a new browser window and display.
If not, the image is corrupt.

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
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