whew!

[moonwise]

This page took me all night to create. Dragging and dropping umpty-eighteen fics into 700-px wide tables is not the most entertaining way to spend an evening.

If anyone knows how to fix a background image in a table cell and adjust its opacity, can they pls tell me? I know a teeny bit of CSS now! Go me!

In other news, Season 2 of Samurai Jack is out. Watcha!

Comments

[wpl510.livejournal.com]

By fixing a background image in a table cell... hrm. Do you mean something like the no-repeat attribute?

Set this for the CSS class defining the background image... the example below is for the body background and is taken from Stephen LeHunte's HTML Reference Library- a wonderful reference program that I found years ago, and you're welcome to try finding it nowadays... this sets a bg image that doesn't repeat, or, failing that, a red color:

BODY {
background: red url(pendant.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
}

As for opacity- I don't know if it works for images, but there's an opacity attribute. See http://www.quirksmode.org/css/opacity.html for details on browser compatibility issues with this, and be kind to your Mozilla and Firefox friends, huh?

[wpl510.livejournal.com]

It would appear I pasted too literally. The example should read:

background-repeat: no-repeat;

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll give it a shot and see if it works. Much appreciated.

[wpl510.livejournal.com]

Ah! One other thing- just be careful to check the browser compatibility thing. Some things- like the ability to make scrollbars pretty colors using CSS- are Internet-Explorer-specific, and most people never tell you that. So when in doubt, be sure to check the W3 standards for what CSS is supposed to include, as that method should work in any web browser. (As opposed to Microsoft's "we just felt like adding this" approach- the quality of their CSS support is the modern equivalent of Netscape 4!) If you're not careful, you could end up with a page that looks fine in one place... but not at all in any other browser or operating system.