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**shadowxninja** · 04:24 AM

ok, heres the deal, i am designing a webpage for a class in school, and nomatter what i try, i cant get the background image to show, and yes the image is in the same folder as the webpage so its not a img src problem,
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<title>MyName2</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#31b5d6">
<h1 align="center">HTML Web Sites</h1>
<img src="gaara.jpg" width="100%" height="100%"><div style="overflow:
auto; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px;">

</body>
</html>

as you can see its nowhere near to being done, but i just cant get past the backgroud problem, and yes i tried the standard way of <body background"example.jpg"> but that didnt work either, i also reduced the resolution of the image to 800x600 thinking that it was a loading problem, but it wasnt,
so to my question, does anyone have a idea as how to fix my problem, or a different way to do a background? any help is appriciated. (also please dont give me a solution in css or xhtml because i havnt learned them yet it will only confuse me more.
http://www.naruto-wallpaper.net/75-gaara-searching.html http://www.naruto-wallpaper.net/141-gaara-cool.html i was working with both of these images if it helps

**shadowxninja** · 01-01-2008, 04:23 AM

http://www.naruto-wallpaper.net/75-gaara-searching.html http://www.naruto-wallpaper.net/141-gaara-cool.html i was working with both of these images if it helps

**chrishirst** · 01-01-2008, 05:08 AM

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_backgrounds.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<title>MyName2</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
    background-image: url(gaara.jpg);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	background-position:center top;
    background-color: #31b5d6;
}</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1 align="center">HTML Web Sites</h1>

</body>
</html>

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please dont give me a solution in css or xhtml because i havnt learned them yet it will only confuse me more

Learn CSS NOW! while you're new at it, it will be easier.
XHTML is exactly the same code as HTML just in lower case and with a few tags not allowed.

**LadynRed** · 01-01-2008, 10:32 AM

Quote:

XHTML is exactly the same code as HTML just in lower case and with a few tags not allowed.

... AND.. EVERY single tag MUST be closed

**shadowxninja** · 01-01-2008, 01:50 PM

thanks for your help, but i cant do css cause im taking a html class and i wont get credit if i do it in css and chris, i already tried the standard tag of <body backgroud="example.jpg"> and it didnt work thanks for the try though.

**chrishirst** · 01-01-2008, 02:12 PM

http://www.candsdesign.co.uk/demo/wt/gaara/

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but i cant do css cause im taking a html class and i wont get credit if i do it in css

What kind of class is that?? teaching people to use deprecated methods of designing, one day schools & colleges may catch up with the rest of the world.

But I doubt it will ever happen.

**shadowxninja** · 01-02-2008, 12:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

http://www.candsdesign.co.uk/demo/wt/gaara/

What kind of class is that?? teaching people to use deprecated methods of designing, one day schools & colleges may catch up with the rest of the world.

But I doubt it will ever happen.

lol.... i hear you there

**©®azy-¢øÐ3R** · 01-02-2008, 02:52 AM

i suggest you use dreamweaver that makes html pretty simple settinf background ect..... check it out.

**MikeRoweforpres** · 03:51 AM

Are you trying to link to files on your computer? If so this may be causing problems when you use firefox or opera browsers. Im not sure if this is only happening to me, but I make alot of mock websites on my computer and I noticed that the images and external style sheets would only work when I viewed them in IE. To confirm that this was the problem, I tried uploading the images to my photobucket account (Dont have a web host yet) and they would work fine in Firefox. Try this out and see if this is the problem, it sounds exactly like what was happening to me. Also make sure background is spelled right

I took a webmastering class about a year before I got serious about it, and we definitley learned CSS and about how useful it was...

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