format background image to fit in a table in Frontpage 2000

J

jch

How do I format an image so that it displays as a single background image
rather than as series of tiled images in a table?
 
S

Steve Easton

Use an image editor to resize / resample the image to the exact dimensions of the table you are
using it in.
The free IrfanView will do this.
www.irfanview.com


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M

Murray

You can't really. But what you *can* do is to use CSS to stop the
background image from repeating/tiling.

So, for example, this table -

<table id="special" background="tableback.jpg"...>

with this CSS in the head of the document -

<style type="text/css">
<!--
#special {
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
-->
</style>

will do pretty much what you want.
 
M

Murray

But that won't work reliably since the content may well force the table to
be larger than you expect, like - I change my text size.
 
J

jch

Thanks Steve I'll try the software.

Steve Easton said:
Use an image editor to resize / resample the image to the exact dimensions of the table you are
using it in.
The free IrfanView will do this.
www.irfanview.com


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Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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J

jch

Thanks Murry. I don't know what css is but I'll take your code and put it in
my page to see if I can make it work.
 
M

Murray

You're welcome. CSS is pretty handy. It stands for "Cascading Style
Sheets", and it functions on a webpage much like a stylesheet in a Word
document.

What's cool about them is that you can control the *LAYOUT* of the page in
an externally linked stylesheet, and just put content on the page. This
allows you to edit your layout on ALL pages by making changes to a single
file. But I am drifting off-topic in my exhuberance....
 
S

Steve Easton

CSS is like most things in life: good in small doses.

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