Re: background problem...HELP!!

> 
> I have a client who wants more than anything to 
> have a background that is a fade from top to bottom.

Glad to hear you say that ... ;-)

Have a look at the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1) specification. This
allows you to specify two background colours which will be smoothly 
faded in a given direction. Clearly this is much faster and 
more modem-friendly than actually sending an image of the fade, plus
it copes with any window size (although your 50 x 1045 image is a good
attempt at that).

There is also the facility to have background images that are fixed 
relative to the window (not the page). I saw this used last week to fix 
a company logo at the bottom right of each slide in a presentation, 
without having to have lots of <br> or anything. Check out:

  http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-css1.html
and
  http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-style.html
  
or for general background,
  http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Style/

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Chris Lilley, Technical Author and JISC representative to W3C 
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Received on Monday, 15 January 1996 05:52:45 UTC