background images in table cells

[DarrenSpink]

hello,

Im trying to use a background image rather than a colour for a table cell, which I have 'simplesearch' and another actinic tag also in. However for some reason I am unable to make it display. Any ideas ?

Darren

[danbond]

what is the html you are using to try and achieve this? pure html or css?

[NormanRouxel]

If you look at the generated HTML in a text editor then you should be able to see what's going on. E.g perhaps there's another table with a blank background being generated within your cell.

Norman

[DarrenSpink]

Thanks, the looks like the problem. How do I identify the html page that loads this table. For instance I am loading NETQUOTEVAR:SIMPLESEARCH into a cell with a background.

Thanks

Darren

[DarrenSpink]

ok...found the correct page ..(stupid me). I have taken out the table from the html and the background displays in the cell in all browsers apart from IE. Heres some of the resulting html:

<table width="700" height="500" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

<tr align="right" valign="bottom" background="top.gif">
<td height="100" colspan="3">
<form name=simplesearch action="http://www.domainname.com/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl" METHOD="GET"><input type="TEXT" name="SS" size="11" maxsize="125" value="Quick search" onFocus="this.value='';this.style.background='#FFFFFF'"> &nbsp; <input type="image" border="0" name="ACTION" src="quicksearch.gif" alt="Go!">
<input TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="PR" VALUE="-1"><input TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="TB" VALUE="A">
<input TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="SHOP" VALUE=""></form></td></tr><tr align="right" valign="bottom"><td height="10" colspan="3">&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td width="250" valign="top">


regards

Darren

[NormanRouxel]

If you move the background="top.gif" to the appropriate <td...> rather than <tr..> that seems to be correct.

Also I'm not sure why you have colspan=3.

Norman

[DarrenSpink]

cheers moving it sorted things.

Darren