Re: Stop Background Repeating
Chris Wilson (cwilso@MICROSOFT.com)
Tue, 31 Dec 1996 14:01:30 -0800
Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=msft%l=RED-76-MSG-961231220130Z-124516@INET-04-IMC.itg.microsoft.com>
From: "Chris Wilson (PSD)" <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>
To: "'Peter Flynn'" <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>,
Cc: "'www-html@www10.w3.org'" <www-html@www10.w3.org>
Subject: RE: Stop Background Repeating
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 14:01:30 -0800
This is already in CSS stylesheets. In fact, I believe Internet
Explorer 3.0 shipped with support for the background-repeat control.
-Chris
Chris Wilson
cwilso@microsoft.com
-[-
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Flynn [SMTP:pflynn@curia.ucc.ie]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 1996 12:36 PM
>To: amas@lhr-sys.DHL.COM
>Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org
>Subject: Re: Stop Background Repeating
>
> I get frustrated when I have a background image with a column on the
> left and since I am viewing the window larger the I should I get more
> columns than I should. Would it be possible to add to the background
> tag a setting where the browser does not repeat the image in the
> horizontal plain?
>
>This sounds like a browser bug to me. Are you asking for control over
>tiling, so that you can specify only a vertical repeat (or,
>presumably, in other circumstances, only a horizontal repeat)?
>
> Sure this is cosmetic, but then so are a few of the recent additions
> to html.
>
><BODY BACKGROUND="foo.gif" TILE="vertical"> sounds perfectly sensible to
>me. I'll add it to HTML Pro so people can test it out.
>
>///Peter
>