Originally posted by Rick Bull Unfortunatly you can't (at least in CSS 2 but maybe CSS 3 which isn't out yet) change the size of the background image. You can though change the width of the main image to allow the background to fit:
<img src="bird.gif" alt="" style="background:transparent url('sky.gif') no repeat; width:100px; height:50px;">
You can use other parameters for background (or specify them idividually). It's probably best you just take a look at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/colors...def-background for the details. But feel free to ask about anything you don't understand.
***thanks a lot..I think ý finnally found what I was after...will this do??