TD & Table backgrounds!! in Netscape? HELP!

Can't get the background "image" to display in Netscape

[fctoma]

It works fine for me in one instance but not on the second table on my page? Can anyone PLEASE help me out and check <sorry, no urls>

The second table doesn't display the background image for me.....

Thank ALL of you so much!

Frank

[edited by: tedster at 3:36 am (utc) on Mar. 4, 2003]
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[legster]

Well I ran into this problem a long time ago, and got some help here on this board. Basically what I was told is that Netscape does not deal well with using background images in separate cells. I believe the way I got around it was to make a separate table in each cell, and make that background image the background for the table instead. Make sure there is no spacing on the tables. Good luck!

[fctoma]

Thanks Legster! My buddy just clued me in on something really crazy....Nutscrape doesn't support "gif"s for backgrounds that much....I just changed the image to a "jpg" and it worked great!!! Isn't that crazy??? So let it be know to try using a jpg in Scrape instead of giving up!! :)

Best,

Frank
www.idahofallsdiscgolf.com

[tedster]

Some versions of Netscape and Explorer both have bugs with JPG backgrounds in table cells -- they render the JPG a four or five times actual size! The safest bet is still to use table backgrounds, as legster said.

[MikeFoster]

Good tips here.

I've had pretty good luck in NN4 using the background css property, and applying the class to the TD.

One little gotcha...

If you use a relative url for the image: IE sees it relative to the location of the css file; NN4 sees it relative to the location of the current html file. Or something like that. I just use absolute urls and have no probs.