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  1. Jun 22nd, 2001, 03:28 AM #1
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    Cool Sounds simple... and maybe it is...

    This is a purely HTML based question.

    When an image is placed as a background either on a table or a page's background it is automatically tiled.

    Does anybody know how to stretch the image to fill the space instead of having it tiled?

    Thanks.
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  2. Jun 22nd, 2001, 06:57 AM #2
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    http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_background.asp

    It looks like you can prevent it from tiling, but I don't see if you can stretch it.
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  3. Jun 22nd, 2001, 09:15 PM #3
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    Hello, Red. Yes you can prevent it from tiling. If you are using the picture as background use <BODY background="yourPicture" bgproperties="fixed">
    I dont know it it will work on a table background but try it.

    Now beware.... I had it working fine on a webpage until I opened it in a computer that had 1024x768 resolution. You may need to make two versions of your page, one for 800x600 resolution and one for 1024x768

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  4. Jun 26th, 2001, 03:45 PM #4
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    watch out if this thing has to work on Netscape as well, because apparently you can't put a picture in the back of a table, or maybe you can but have to change the syntax.
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  6. Jun 26th, 2001, 03:48 PM #5
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    or maybe I wasn't quite right, this is what Homesite says;

    BACKGROUND="URL of image"
    Internet Explorer and Netscape support the placing of images in the <TABLE> element. (Also in the <TD> and <TH> elements) If used in the <TABLE> element, the image in question will be tiled behind all of the table cells. Any of the supported graphic file formats can be used as a graphic behind a table.

    but I'm quite sure that doens't work in all versions of Netscape
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  7. Jun 27th, 2001, 10:29 PM #6
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    Hmm, yes but remember that hwat he is trying to do is prevent the image from tiling when used as a background. that is where bgproperties="fixed" comes in handy.
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