daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lilley)
Mon Feb 26 13:18:54 1996
From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
To: A.Aitken@unl.ac.uk (ALASTAIR AITKEN CLMS)
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 17:21:24 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: www-html@w3.org, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <01I1OAGW7QLE9GWLMA@grid.unl.ac.uk> from "ALASTAIR AITKEN CLMS" at Feb 26, 96 03:53:15 pm
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Alastair Aitken writes:
> I'd like to either exclude the background specified in the <body ... > </body>
> statement from a <table ... > </table> *or* specify a different background
> for the table. As far as I am aware I cannot do either.
Could be - what sort of HTML are you writing?
> Does anyone know better? Has anyone wanted to do this and couldn't?
> Does anyone else want to?
I wanted to and did, using stylesheets. This was fairly simple. See
the html [1] the stylesheet [2] and a gif of the result [3]. The relevant
parts of the stylesheet being:
html { color: #030; background: #F7FFD7 }
table { background: "smudge3.png" #FFD }
[1] http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/test/css/ws/confs2.html
[2] http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/test/css/ws/new-style.css
[3] http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/test/css/ws/arena-wc-tn.gif
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