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Posted by Nik Coughlin on 11/27/07 05:31
"rf" <rf@invalid.com> wrote in message
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> "Nik Coughlin" <nrkn.com@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> One thing that has always annoyed me, and I just design around it, is
>> having a tile that you want to use for your background image that doesn't
>> seamlessly tile, in a container that you want to be fluid. I had a go at
>> it, but had to use JavaScript:
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>> http://nrkn.com/fluidTiling/
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>> Question, anyone have *any* ideas about how you could do it without the
>> JS?
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> Notice that you have to "do" stuff to make this happen. More precicely you
> have to *do* stuff to certain margins on browser resize. Since neither
> HTML nor CSS actually *do* stuff, but merely describe how other stuff is
> layed out (they are not programming, despite the L in HTML), you are IMHO
> out of luck.
Yeah, I thought as much, but I also thought that maybe some jiggery pokery
magic with percentage widths, negative margins etc. might be able to hack
together into something that works. Haven't thought that approach through
far enough to know for sure but I suspect that it wouldn't be possible.
> BTW it does work in IE6 and IE5.5 but with horrendous flashing as the page
> is made wider. These browsers fire onresize after every mouse move, not at
> the end of the resize operation - a page re-layout re-paint after every
> pixel and the repaint is not smart, it erases the canvas to white and then
> paints the new content.
Yuck.
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