forcing cell heights

[vb-newbie]

Hi all,

I'm new to html, and got a question for you all gurus out there.

I was just wondering how to force the height of a cell? I've created a table in frontpage and have a picture as a background to it. The table structure is used in multiple pages where I just change the contents of the table.

On some of the tables, the picture looks ok. On others, the picture is repeated vertically in the cell. When i look at the html details for that row, its height is set to 180, the same as those tables where the picture is displayed correctly.

Is there any way to stop the background picture from repeating or making it so they all look the same?

thanks for all the help!

[C@L]

in the cell tags just add the height tag

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<td height="image height">

Hope that helps

[johneva]

Firstly welcome to the DEVPPL fourm.

Right
I would advise on not using Front Page anyways cos it code up pages wrong.

As for how to stop a backgroung image repeating.

table
{
background: name.jpeg;
background: no-repeat;
}

But tables should not be used for layout anyways.

And the problem you explain comes when you are using a table that is larger than the image.

[C@L]

john if hes new to html i doubt he will know CSS

[vb-newbie]

Hey guys,

Thanks for the replies. And yup, he's right... i'm not familiar with css. I did see it as a solution to the tiling problem in the help section of frontpage, though.

I'll give those things a try and get back again if i'm stuck, if that's ok...

Thank you!

[johneva]

Aup

You dont need to know CSS, I have given the CSS all that you would have to do is wrap it with the style tags and stick in in the head of your page, or stick it in a CSS file but as said theres a good chance with you being new you would not be using a CSS file though.

Thanx John

[C@L]

to stop the images tiling i guess your guna have to use CSS

ok you should use the code john gave you just add it to the head tag

<style=text/css>
table
{
background: name.jpeg;
background: no-repeat place;
}
</style>

Where i have put place you can insert a possition where you would like the image to be ie. "bottom" "top" "left" "bottom right" "top left"