2 Body Background Images?

**JackJack** · 05-23-2008, 10:32 PM

Is it possible to have two background images? One to the left, and one to the right of the window?

Here's the code I tried in my CSS stylesheet, but it only showed one of the images.

body
{
background: #C3E2A6 url(/images/flowerLEFT.jpg) 0% 0 no-repeat;
background: #C3E2A6 url(/images/flowerRIGHT.jpg) 100% 0 no-repeat;
}

And here is a dummy mock up of what I'm trying to achieve.

**fileserverdirect** · 05-24-2008, 01:10 AM

Try this:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<style>
body 
{
background: #C3E2A6 url(/images/flowerLEFT.jpg) top left no-repeat;
}
.right {
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
background: #C3E2A6 url(/images/flowerRIGHT.jpg) top right 0 no-repeat;
}
</style>
<title>Your Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="right"></div>
other content
</body>
</html>

You can tweak the height of .right. And you can include text inside of it also.

**JackJack** · 05-27-2008, 07:47 PM

Thanks for the reply, but it didn't quite work. The closest I could get it to work was this following code in my CSS style sheet.

body
{
background: #C3E2A6 url(/images/flowerLEFT.jpg) 0% 0 no-repeat;
}

.right {
width: 300px;
height: 430px;
background: url(/images/flowerRIGHT.jpg);
float: right;
}

The problem is the content for the rest of the page gets messed up. See example page: EXAMPLE
(I know it's ugly, it's only an example.) All the elements are supposed to be centered, (not left) and the background color of my link (WORDS) is gone.

**boogyman** · 05-27-2008, 08:09 PM

All the elements are supposed to be centered, (not left)

try

Code:

body {
     margin: 0 auto;
     width: 80%; /* 80% of the available viewport */
     text-align: center;
}

an interesting trick i learned about assigning 2 background images is to actually assign 1 to the body and 1 to html

Code:

html {
     background: #hexadecimal url('/path') no-repeat top left;
}
body {
     background: #hexadecimal url('/path') no-repeat top right;
}

now as for your anchor tags (links) being a different color, those are all controlled by

a:link
a:visited
a:hover
a:active

so if you have multiple declarations of one or more, of those above, the one declared last should always be the one that is applied

**coothead** · 05-27-2008, 08:12 PM

Hi there JackJack,

you can see an example of two background-images here...

http://mysite.orange.co.uk/azygous/two_backgrounds.html

...and the code here...

Code:


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>two backgrounds</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<style type="text/css">

html {
    height:100%;
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
    background-color:#fff;
    background-image:url(images/anim2.gif);
    background-repeat:repeat-y; 
    background-position:right top;
    background-attachment:fixed;
 }
body {
    min-height:100%;
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
    background-image:url(images/anim1.gif);
    background-repeat:repeat-y; 
    background-position:left top;
    background-attachment:fixed;
 }
div{
    margin:0 100px; 
    padding:140px 150px;
 }
p{
    margin:0;
    padding:10px 0;
    text-align:justify;
 }
</style>

<!--[if IE 6]>
<style type="text/css">
body {
    height:100%;
 }
</style>
<![endif]-->

</head>
<body>

<div>

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</div>

</body>
</html>

coothead

**sandyk3** · 05-27-2008, 10:48 PM

boogyman - this will come in handy in the future.. you rock!!

**JackJack** · 05-27-2008, 11:16 PM

Thanks for the help.

I couldn't get it to work on IE, and after much trail and error I figured that the DOCTYPE is pretty darn important on IE. Also, I found that the DOCTYPE will not be included in a php include header script! So, I had to add that DOCTYPE to each page to get it to work.

Stupid Internet Explorer!

**boogyman** · 05-28-2008, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by JackJack

I figured that the DOCTYPE is pretty darn important

its only important if you wish to abide by the standards designed to help the site render the same across all browsers

now as for Internet Explorer goes... all I can muster up is LMAO... even when IE is in standards mode, it does a bad job rendering properly

Also, I found that the DOCTYPE will not be included in a php include header script! So, I had to add that DOCTYPE to each page to get it to work.

if you had a page with all of your generic header information and then included it, whatever you have in that file should be transferred

Stupid Internet Explorer!

best three words of this thread! haha