Okay class pay attention. Here's a lil tip for all the shadetree style sheeters here. Mods and admins, go watch TV, we know you know this already <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <br /> <br />If you are placing an image in a cell for a wrapper or whatever other idea you have, you need to establish a few things in your css tag setup. <br /> <br />.tag-name { <br /> background-image: url(/path/to/image.gif,jpg,png,jpeg); <= path to image. <br /> <br /> background-position: left middle; <= if you do NOT want the image to repeat, or have a special place for it to start from before it repeats, this is very important. <br /> <br /> background-repeat: no-repeat; <= this will only show the complete image (TD width/height permitting) and not "repeat" it all over the cell and/or table. The default is to repeat, so yes-repeat; is not used. You can also repeat it in one direction only. To repeat it horizontally and NOT vertically use repeat-x; To repeat it vertically and NOT horizontally, use repeat-y; . <br /> <br />background-color: #ffffff; <= this is fairly straight forward. <br /> <br />height: 25px; <= size of image used. <br /> <br />width: 25px; <= size of image used. <br />} <br /> <br />Hope this helps <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

thanx Daddy can we have that Sex Talk next? <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Sex? Hmmmmmmmmm I vaguely remember something about that, before I started web design and coding..lol

thanks for the pointers <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

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Another lil tidbit...<br /><br />Have you ever seen the border around an image in a post, because it was used as a link to somewhere else? <br /><br />.post IMG {<br />border-width: 0px;<br />}<br /><br />Should get rid of it <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Good tip. Thanks.

If you have struggled like I have with HR's in all different browsers, this way seems to be the best.<br /><br />hr {<br /> background-color: #EEEEEE;<br /> border: 0;<br /> color: #EEEEEE;<br /> height: 1px;<br /> width: 80%;<br />}<br /><br />If like me, you want it thin.

Todays lil tip:<br /><br />The best way to finish off your CSS sheet is to drop by w3c.org and validate it. This ensures proper coding as well as compatibility with a wider array of browsers.

let me add this site I use it alot to understand CSS<br />as a reference<br /><br />http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/index.html<br /><br />and<br /><br />for html <br /><br />http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/index.html

well, both of those are ok methods... they both work. the problem is that I have to hit refresh in order for the body background to show once I enter a category thread or if i go back... once i hit refresh, i can see the background.<br /><br />is there somewhere that i can tell the page to do an automatically refresh after each page change?