Posted by Els on 05/19/06 19:23

bluerobot2007@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am relatively new to HTML & (especially) CSS. A friend of mine is
> editing her myspace profile & I volunteered to take a look at it
> because she can't get the background image to stay fixed. You'd think
> it would be simple....but I am having so much trouble with it! I feel
> like I've tried everything I can think of & it won't work. There's
> something I'm missing & it's driving me crazy! I also feel like some
> things are unnecessary in there and it's put together weird. The
> background image does show up, it's just not fixed. Please keep in mind
> I am new at this....
>
> ((Also the background image appears 4 separate times throughout the
> code & I changed the link (to "background image") just to keep her
> stuff private. ))
>
> Can someone please help me out? Here is the code:

[snip really bad code with multiple body elements, of which some are
even empty (!) ]

If that's original MySpace code, I wouldn't bother trying to
understand why it doesn't wanna stay fixed. What you could do though,
is find a MySpace page with fixed background, and compare the code
with your friend's to see where it's different.

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Els http://locusmeus.com/

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