Posted by David Dorward on 12/11/05 18:50

PJB wrote:

> Is there a way to define the size of a page's background image
> so it spans 100% of any screen?

No. You can fake it with a foreground image with content layered over it
using absolute positioning, but that's a bad idea (from the semantic point
of view, but also from the problems you can if CSS is turned off or
unavailable, and that bitmaps don't scale all that well anyway).

Having backgrounds that can tile (at least in part, a tiling section in the
middle can have non-tiling selections on each side of it) or that fade to a
plain background colour is generally a good idea.

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