CSS -- Background image probs

jiawen · 09-30-2002, 01:32 PM

Hi all!
I'm having a prob getting background images for my pages <www.jiawen.net/index.html> and <www.jiawen.net/spheres.html> to load. I tried them on Opera and they worked fine, but on IE, I seem to be having probs. Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance,

-- Rachel Kronick

*skolnick* · 09-30-2002, 03:04 PM

Bad news -- it isn't working in Netscape 6 either.

Good news -- I think (observed but not tested) it is because you have no <body> tag (there is a closing body tag though).

*jak* · 09-30-2002, 06:20 PM

hey rachel,

after checking out Dave's response, you may want to double-check your "css" script

in place of:

body {
font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, "Myriad Web", sans-serif;
background: url(stars1c.jpg), black;
color: #cccccc, silver
}

you may want:
body
{
font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, "Myriad Web", sans-serif;
background-image:
url("stars1c.jpg"), black;
color: #cccccc, silver
}

meaning ... the quote marks around the image or where it may be located in your directory ... url(../images/stras1c.jpg) ... etc.

background-image works best in Netscape 6.0 (try it after these changes) and with Internet Explorer v4.0 and up.

hope this helps,

*skolnick* · 09-30-2002, 06:30 PM

Rachel --

You might want to just run the whole site -- pages and css -- through a validator like the html one at http://validator.w3.org/ and the css one at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/. The validators will flag inconsistent and incorrect tag usage, unbalanced tags, and other things that will cause inconsistent rendering in different browsers.

Julie --

How're those martinis coming?

*jak* · 09-30-2002, 08:26 PM

Quote:

Julie --

How're those martinis coming?

i like THESE kind of questions.

the martini's are chilling and waiting for Frogs and Holly Golightly.

cheers, (and we haven't even started yet!)

*sheila* · 09-30-2002, 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jak:

the martini's are chilling and waiting for Frogs and Holly Golightly.

Wow. It would be my first.

*skolnick* · 10-01-2002, 06:44 AM

Going to have to start watching those special fares out of LAX and IAD into ORD and Midway!

jiawen · 10-02-2002, 09:36 AM

Hey, all--

Thanks for the help those what gave it. Thanks for the confusion, too.

Martinis?

I do believe the CSS should be okay now. W3C validates them, at least, for CSS2. (How many browsers can handle CSS1 but not CSS2?).

-- Rachel

*skolnick* · 10-02-2002, 12:22 PM

Rachel --

Both pages show the background images in IE 5.5 and Nav 4.77. Congratulations.

Sorry about the martini comment -- it was a gag carried over from another thread. Julie may not think it's so funny when people actually start showing up at her house looking for martinis!

*jak* · 10-03-2002, 11:04 AM

hi rachel,

here are some more "readings" about CSS1 and CSS2 support :

Browsers able to utilize CSS1

CSS 1 chart

and

CSS 2 chart

and yes, about the martini's. it's all dave's fault.

i can't even remember where the thread was, and it was on something completely different even from what the thread subject was back then!

welcome to the wonderful wooly (woolly(?) and it's not from the martinis) world of FutureQuest Forums.

cheers,