Help with HTML

Dude_Doc · March 3, 2004

How do you center a background? I know how to place a background on a homepage, but how do I center it?

Digital Guerrilla · March 3, 2004

Do you mean "image" because there would be no need to "center" the background.

Ex:

</p>

Dude_Doc · March 3, 2004

Well not really center, but make it fixed, so when you browse down, the picture stays.

Andrew · March 3, 2004

bgproperties="fixed"

in your <Body> tag.

like as an example:

taken from:

http://users.eastlink.ca/~andrewabc/jihad/

Gobalopper · March 3, 2004

Best way is to use a stylesheet as it should be supported in more browsers:

body

{

background-image: url('path/to/image.png');

background-repeat: no-repeat;

}

Andrew · March 3, 2004

I still havn't gotten that far with my CSS file yet :P

(But was wondering how to use it for backgrounds)

Maybe I will incorporate that into it now.

And I can't get that coding to work for me Gob in my css file. (or any body coding) :(

Dude_Doc · March 4, 2004

Okay, thanks, it worked. But, I have another problem. I want to make certain parts of an image transparent. Can I do this in the code or do I have to do it in Photoshop etc?

gryphon · March 4, 2004

think that with a background image it should be possible.

Dude_Doc · March 4, 2004

Well, actually, it's for the school. We want to make a "chopped-off" square, and inside it, pictures of different appearences. The pictures will also function as links to different sites.

Andrew · March 4, 2004

The pictures will also function as links to different sites.

Will you be using the ismap usemap="#map2" coding?

Something like:

</a>

</map>

That took me like an hour to map out my image (because it's so big).

I still havnt perfectly figured out some stuff, but I think that is because of panes.

Cyborg · March 21, 2004

Okay, thanks, it worked. But, I have another problem. I want to make certain parts of an image transparent. Can I do this in the code or do I have to do it in Photoshop etc?

You must make a gif file with a transparent background.

It's not easy to do that in Photoshop, according to my experience, but I found it an easy thing to do in Paint.

However, I can't find the "transparent colour" function in Paint anymore... Did they remove that in XP? If so, that was a most idiotic thing to do...

Andrew · March 27, 2004

I have a HTML question about .CSS files.

Is it possible to have two backgrounds in a CSS file that would be used in two different HTML files. I dislike making two CSS files just because one webpage has a different background.

Cyborg · March 27, 2004

The point with css is that all your pages should have the same design.

I second that idea...

Andrew · March 27, 2004

True

gryphon · March 27, 2004

And for some reason Dune jihad Website takes sometimes 3-5 seconds to load, lots of processor time, and I can't figure out why. http://users.eastlink.ca/~andrewabc/jihad/

server side bandwidth conrole, or multiple directories it might be using to look for your background image. .. ?

although that wouldn't explain the high amound of CPU time..

Andrew · March 27, 2004

I opened it on my computer (the files I edit etc) and it is just as slow. (well maybe its 2-3 second delay)

So it isn't a server problem, must be coding or something. This didn't start until after I added CSS files. :-

Doubt it would be the background image being too big. (there are 3)

All images are in same directory. (except a few in the original directory)

Cyborg · March 27, 2004

I think you should design your pages the same way.

Remember that, even though the body and such tags must be the same, you can have multiple classes for tables and such!

Andrew · March 28, 2004

I think you should design your pages the same way.
Remember that, even though the body and such tags must be the same, you can have multiple classes for tables and such!

I haver no idea what you mean by multiple classes for tables :P (HTML illiterate.)

You mean in the CSS you can define multiple different tables?

Cyborg · March 28, 2004

Yes, like you can do this:

Make a class for one table type, and call it, say Maintableitem.

You then refer to it by typing:

You can also make more classes, like:

Navigationbaritem

Newsheader

Newsbody

Newsfooter

Stuff like that.

You can create classes for everything!

Andrew · March 28, 2004

oh, that yah, I know of that. (well not that you can use class in td) but I knew of Classes. Heres my default.css for sedermia.

body

{

background-image: url('pics/background.jpg');

background-attachment: fixed;

margin: 0px 10px 5px 10px;

}

a {

color: #0000FF;

}

a:active {

color: red;

}

a:visited {

color: 115500;

}

div.pagetitle {

font: bold;

font-size: 32;

text-align: center

}

/* */

/* City / Town */

/* */

span.occupants {

font: italic;

text-decoration: underline;

color: darkgreen

}

span.info {

font: italic;

text-decoration: underline;

color: orangered

}

span.commerce {

font: italic;

text-decoration: underline;

color: purple

}

span.military {

font: italic;

text-decoration: underline;

color: red

}

span.history {

font: italic;

text-decoration: underline;

color: brown

}

div.territory {

font: bold;

font-size: 24;

text-align: center

}

div.territorysmall {

font: bold;

font-size: 18;

text-align: center

}

/* */

/* Elementals */

/* */

div.holyelementals {

font: italic;

font: bold;

text-decoration: underline;

font-size: 18;

color: bdabcd

}

span.order {

font: italic;

text-decoration: underline;

color: brown

}

span.life {

font: italic;

text-decoration: underline;

color: magenta

}

span.earth {

font: italic;

text-decoration: underline;

color: green

}

span.water {

font: italic;

text-decoration: underline;

color: blue

}

div.demonicelementals {

font: italic;

font: bold;

text-decoration: underline;

font-size: 18;

color: AA11CC22

}

span.chaos {

font: italic;

text-decoration: underline;

color: orangered

}

span.death {

font: italic;

text-decoration: underline;

color: black

}

span.wind {

font: italic;

text-decoration: underline;

color: aabbee

}

span.fire {

font: italic;

text-decoration: underline;

color: red

}

Cyborg · March 28, 2004

I think you use too many classes.

All those elemental classes should be combined to one, and you should just specify the colour itself in the HTML file...

However, if you want, I can help you design your website so it looks quite cool...

Andrew · March 28, 2004

:P

But what if I wanted to change the color? Then I would have to edit it wherever I put the class=water

Cyborg · March 29, 2004

Do you have one for every webpage?

That's against the point of CSS...

You shall link all the webpages to one CSS!

Also the menues should act that way.

However, you use frames in your site.

That makes it harder to create a god looking web page.

Andrew · March 29, 2004

What's wrong with frames? :(

I have not changed my contents CSS file over to default because they have different margins.

default: margin: 0px 10px 5px 10px;

contents: margin: 0px 10px 0px 10px;

Cyborg · March 29, 2004

There you see the problem with frames :P

Tables style is much easier and looks better ;)

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