- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 01:40:09 -0800
- To: "Style" <www-style@w3.org>, "Todd Fahrner" <fahrner@pobox.com>
Todd Fahrner brewdingly wrote: > >Take, for instance, this case: http:/www.verso.com/~todd/concept.html (in a >4.0 browser - both show errors). The paragraph-background image is a tiling >pattern. To get the same effect, I think, the spec would have me do >something like this: > > background-image: url(blackscreen.GIF) -1em -1em; > margin-top: 0; > margin-left: 0; > margin-right: 67%; > padding: 1em; > >No no no - that's not right. That wouldn't extend the pattern out 1 em on >the right and bottom. You don't need to change your declaration at all to maintain that cleverly-gotten effect. A repeating background image will still extend into the padding, wherever the initial position. >... I'm trying real hard to imagine a rendering that the spec >would allow but that the semi-implementations wouldn't, and not coming up >with one. Allow, maybe not, but simplify, yes, as in positioning a non-repeating background image behind a block of text with different padding left and right. >It may also be the case that the hour and the homebrew in my blood have >affected my perception, and I'm missing something obvious. Ah, yes, homebrews and wee hours, insidious obfuscators of the soberly obvious! David Perrell
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