One Table Background
November 1999



One particular problem that some computer viewers and webtv users may have with webpages that contain more than one set of opening and closing html and body tags is that the webpage background image will not appear and the webpage may appear blank or white when accessed.

The method below does not use extra <html> or <body> code tags at all and it will work on any webpage, regardless of the "page style" initially chosen.

Most of the page will have the background you want, but it will have an outside border of the webtv page style initially chosen (the space background for this webpage).

Use only one "add an item"--"text" area for the entire webpage, and use a table construction in the text editing area.



Do not use any opening or closing
<html> or <body> codes tags in any editing area.



The "add an item"--"text" codes for this webpage look like this:

</td></tr></table>

<table background=&quothttp://community.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/images3/scrapbookFiles/importD12.gif" width="100%" bgcolor="#2F4F4F" cellpadding="20">
<tr>
<td>

Title of page here

Add all the webpage content here,
including images (with urls and html codes),
text, marquees, counters, other tables, etc.

</td>
</tr>
</table>

<table><tr><td>



Click here for validation results using the method above.



NOTE (revision 4/2000): In order for the table used above to be 100% of the page, you need to start the "add an item"--"text" area off with a closing set of table tags, to close the pre-made table that Webtv automatically adds to the overall source code. Click here to see why this and the opening set of table tags at the end of the above code are necessary.




NOTE: Be sure to add a bgcolor to the table in case the background image does not load up (for whatever reason).



An alternate one-table method:
http://community.webtv.net/buonafortua/doc/

and
Validation results for buonafortuna's method:
http://community-1.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/MoreValidation/






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