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broken background??
Do you mean the background does not appear?
If so then you have given the wrong URL for the image you want to use - check the typing exactly, including case sensitivity.
If you get a 'broken' image symbol, then you have the wrong URL for the image and your code for a bg image is wrong.
It should be ...
<body background="the_URL_for_the_image" .... >
Boader301 posted this at 05:15 — 11th March 2000.
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I have a question about backgrounds. I tried tp put in my background the other day and It always shows up as broken! I also want to know where I can find some one to partner up with me in the editing of my site!
§ROOKIE NEEDS HELP§
Suzanne posted this at 01:17 — 12th March 2000.
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Background images don't show up broken, they just don't show up...
Where are you trying to put the image? A background image goes in the <body>, <table> or <td> tag, unless you are using CSS, where you can specify an image for a number of tags, like DIV and P and A as well.
There is no <background> tag, however. (Just in case, I have seen people try it!)
Like AndyB says, there is every chance you just have the url or path to the image not right. Even if the path is right, if you have different capitalization, it won't work online (though it may on your machine), such as image.GIF instead of image.gif, or Image.gif instead of image.gif. Make sure the name of the image and what you are calling it are identical.
hth,
Suzanne
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Deus Aeronauticae posted this at 02:55 — 12th March 2000.
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One thing I have found is that certain file types won't always work as backgrounds. Sometimes I can get a .jpg file to work and sometimes I can't...other times it is .gif that won't work. It seems to be who is hosting it.
Suzanne posted this at 03:18 — 12th March 2000.
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Do you have examples (please!) Deus? Gif and JPEG have been around for a very long time, and are supported by all graphic browsers and as far as I know, all servers. PNG and other image formats aren't as supported by different graphical browsers.
Thanks!
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AndyB posted this at 09:47 — 12th March 2000.
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I have a very distant memory that, some MUCH earlier versions of Netscape only supported JPG for backgrounds .. but then my memory could be wrong ??
and of course if you happen to be using a *free* server for your images, you may be getting no image served to a remotely hosted add-on like a guestbook or forum, i.e. if you don't use the *free* server for pageviews then they won't let you use the image storage at other places.
Suzanne posted this at 19:47 — 12th March 2000.
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AndyB -- I have just been reading about this. I don't use free servers for anything, but apparently Geocities/Yahoo has made it so that you can't call to another site in order to prevent their members from stealing bandwidth. This is a good thing, in some ways, in that it prevents bandwidth theft, but bad in others as it limits the web, I think. Incredible! (I am actively involved in copyright awareness, and that is part of the issue, of course).
This is going to wreak havoc on the counters that use images for counting (commonly used on free servers as they are usually free), referrer program banner ads, et cetera.
I'm still curious about how a background can appear broken, though (lol!).
Thanks for the tip on why the images may not appear, that will be helpful to know.
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AndyB posted this at 01:43 — 13th March 2000.
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Suzanne (and anybody else who cares) ... it's much worse than that.
http://clik.to/missing is a page I set up because so many people had trouble with this *free* server stuff using services from one provider and images from a *free* web space.
I update that little page every few weeks as I get news of another *free* server no allowing remote loading.
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