no repeat background
April 23, 2005 12:00 AM
I needed a large graphic as a no repeat background behind a survey with form elements. I can't find that option anywhere. So I decided to just bring the graphic onto the page and make the graphic the bottom layer. When I published to HTML and looked at it locally it was fine. When I ftp'd it up to my webserver (IIS5) and looked at it the results were strange. The form elements completely disappeared. The text boxes were all mashed on the bottom and there was a blank space at the top where the graphic went.To solve the problem I hacked the HTML and added the following to the body tag: "background-repeat: no-repeat;" without the quotes of course. That solved the no repeat problem. But this does raise two issues:First, what did IIS do to scramble the appearance of the file? At first I thought it may have been the large diskspace required of the file but as a jpg it was only 12KB....so it was small that way even though physically large on the screen. (It may be that I have form elements/checkboxes scattered throughout the page.)Secondly, did I miss it....is there a no-repeat option on background images? The problem with my approach is every time I make a change and republish I will have to go into the html and add that adjustment.
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