fixed background images

i'm waiting on an email reply about this but thought i might ask here as well :)

basically, i've got a top right fixed background image but at the moment it's tiled (like any bg is of course) but i don't want it to be cos it looks rubbish! lol

how do i prevent an image from tiling?

thanks.

you can't prevent it from tiling that I know of. Not if it's a background image. Unless it's the right size to fit the entire background without tiling

damn.

i did try no-repeat, as suggested on a css site, but that just produced a lot of white around it where it doesn't fit the screen.

if anyone else has a clue, i'd be grateful! lol

I think peggy is right..

Use CSS. What you do is create an element to contain the background image. Of course, with vBulletin, you already have all the elements created, you just have to locate the correct one. Then, you code your CSS background property for that element.

For example, say you wanted the "body" element to contain your un-tiled background image. This CSS declaration would do it:


<style type="text/css">
body
{
background-image: url('myimage.jpg');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: top left;
}
</style>


There are many different background properties, doing a web search on "CSS background" should take you to several tutorials and a complete specification on the CSS background selectors.

hmmmm.. I tried that and it didn't work. I got the background image in the upper left and blank space all around it where a background should be.

Set background-color: to match your site and get rid of the white in addition to tgreer's post.

Ohio: that means that it DID work... it placed the image at the top-left with no repeating (tiling). To change the overall color of the background, you'd need to add a "background-color: " to that style declaration. As I said, there are LOTS of background properties.

Also, feel free to move this to the new Graphics Discussion, if you think that would be appropriate.

already did :p

thanks people :) i managed to get replies to my emails, and so had already managed it by the time i came back here. all the help is MUCH appreciated tho, and will hopefully be of use to others too :)

the changing of the background colour is annoyingly obvious once it's pointed out!! lol

and my code doesn't look exactly like that above, but it works the same anyway! ;)

thanks again, folks!

great Elsie, I'm glad you got it fixed up

Post what your's does look like, Elsie... please, that isn't a double-entendre, Os, resist the obvious comeback.

LOL... are you getting paranoid Thomas?

Yes. MarcoH64 is reading all of my PMs.

Or, to quote Frank Burns from *M*A*S*H*: "I'm only paranoid because everybody hates me."

aww darlin, you're safe here... :)

i'll show you mine if you show me your's!! ;)

#DEDEDE url(images/misc/wallpaper2b.jpg) no-repeat top right fixed

Yes, that's the "compact" version. For the girl on the go.

well it was a man who told me what to put, so there ya go! lol

LOL @ Elsie