Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 11/20/53 11:31

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

> Giggle Girl wrote:
> >
> > When I set a TR background image, every time I hit a TD it "re-seeds"
> > the image. I want to have a TR that shows an 800px image in it's
> > entirety, not a fragmented one.
[...]
> Also works when applied to TR but not sure how kosher, seems to
> display same as when applied to TABLE element and is not confined to
> TR

Yes, it produces the desired effect in Mozilla. But, curiously, not
in Opera, where the image is restarted in each cell.

There's a crudely-made test document, for the time being, at
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/tests/tablebg.html
in which table rows 2, 3 and 5 are supposed to show the effect.

That it doesn't produce the desired result in MSIE came as no great
surprise, but the fact that Opera does the same as MSIE makes me start
to wonder whether this is even *supposed* to work. And yet, I haven't
found anything in the specifications against styling a table row and
expecting it to work consistently?

I wonder whether there are any values of background-position and/or
background-attach which would persuade reluctant browsers to do what's
wanted? Haven't found any suitable value(s) yet, though.

regards

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