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Subject:Re: Microsoft FrontPage question From:Peter Kent <techwr -at- ARUNDEL -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 13 Sep 1997 00:02:21 -0600
> Jacqueline Fry wrote:--snip--
>> However, after I select the image as the background, it appears there,
>> but it is "tiled". I would like for the .jpg
>> to be centered in the background, not appear as a continuous image! In
>> the Background window, there is no option for selecting "tiled" or
>> "centered". Is there any way to fix this?
Though I haven't tried, I think you could do this by creating a table,
putting the image inside the table as a background image, then typing your
text on top. The table could simply be one large cell, set to 100% width.
> There is a way to specify a fixed background, but as far as I know, it's
> IE4 only.
It sounds like you're referring to the watermark. It's fixed in the sense
that the text scrolls over it--normal backgrounds move when you scroll down
the document. But it's still tiled.
>CSS may allow it too, but
> full support of CSS is few and far between with the current browsers,
> and not supported at all in the previous-generation browsers.
I don't think cascading style sheets addresses the issue of background
images, does it?
Peter Kent
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