Posted by rf on 11/27/07 04:31

"Nik Coughlin" <nrkn.com@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:fig3o2$dds$1@aioe.org...
> 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:
>
> http://nrkn.com/fluidTiling/

>
> Question, anyone have *any* ideas about how you could do it without the
> JS?

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.

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.

--
Richard.

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