the correct tag for a background

a table background, not a body background

[Echo_Tyme]

Ok I thought I had my site 100% perfect... ran it through the validator.. and it hates the "background" tag in my TD elements.

<table width="750" background="/images/back.gif">

that's the one background i have... the page has a top image, a bottom image, and this middle image that repeats if there is content, when there is no comment it stops and prints the bottom image.

Problem is.. it works (on all browsers I think) but the validator at WC3 is telling me that it's not a correct attribute... Now... i've looked around but couldn't find anyone who knew this answer:

What is the correct attribute?

If you know then you are a god... Thank you for your time.

[moltar]

You can use inline CSS:

<table width="750" style="background: url("/images/back.gif")">

Or define a CSS class in the header:

table.table_w_bg {
 width: 750px;
 background: url("/images/back.gif");
}

then in the html body just refer to it:

<table class="table_w_bg">

[Echo_Tyme]

i'm gonna try that... i think it will work... ur my hero.

[henry0]

You can also use the TD
<td width="2" rowspan="5" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#800000">

that one is part of site that 100% validates with W3C

regards

[Echo_Tyme]

well taht's only a background color, i needed an image.

[tedster]

You can also use the same style attribute for a <td>

<td style="background: url("/images/back.gif")">

[Echo_Tyme]

well....

<table width="750" style="background: url("/images/back.gif")">

that doesn't work... it's not showing the image at all...

and I can't use the TD tag because the image is spread across all 3 td's i have setup.

it's table, td, td, td, end.

but nothing seems to work... I dind't try out external CSS but it'll be about the same anyhow.

[tedster]

Sorry, our mistake. No quotes at all around the image path in css.

<table width="750" style="background: url(/images/back.gif)">