- From: Chris Wilson (PSD) <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 14:01:30 -0800
- To: "'Peter Flynn'" <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>, "'amas@lhr-sys.DHL.COM'" <amas@lhr-sys.DHL.COM>
- Cc: "'www-html@www10.w3.org'" <www-html@www10.w3.org>
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 >
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