Repeating background images in tables

Question

I am working on a web page with a background image in a
table. I have also inserted a table inside this same table to
include some text. When I preview this in Netscape/Firefox and
increase the text size a couple of times from the browsers menu,
the table with the image starts repeating as the text increases in
size. I don't mind the text changes sizes, but is there a way to
stop the table from repeating the background image? This is a
problem since the repeating image looks terrible.

Answer 1

On that page, change this -
</head>
to this -
<style type="text/css">
table.special { background-repeat:no-repeat; }
</style>
</head>
and then change your table tag from this -
<table width="100%" height="606" border="0" align="center"
cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0">
to this -
<table width="100%" border="0" align="center"
cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0" class="special">
(there is no table height attribute - it's invalid HTML)
> b, be too small, dependent upon which browser they are
viewed in.
Impossible. A background image will not change size in
different browsers.
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> Use CSS -
>
> table { background-repeat:no-repeat; }
>
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> Murray --- ICQ 71997575
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> I am trying to do the same thing, and my bg images seem
to either
> a, repeat somewhat
> or
> b, be too small,
> dependent upon which browser they are viewed in.
>
> I will try to use the code suggested above, but where
exactly would I
> insert
> it?
> This is the code for the 'table within the table'...
>
> <table width="100%" height="606" border="0"
> align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
> <tr>
> <th width="35%" height="95"
> scope="col"><h1>ten</h1></th>
> <th width="26%"
scope="col"><h1>year</h1></th>
> <th width="39%"
scope="col"><h1>plan</h1></th>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td height="325"><table width="100%"
height="266"
> border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
> <tr>
> <th scope="col"> </th>
> <th background="../smiths.jpg"
> scope="col"> </th>
> <th scope="col"> </th>
> </tr>
> </table> <p> </p>
>
>
> Ta!
>