Hi Bill, I've done it before - so I'm not sure why it doesn't work now. And as I explained if I set the pixel length value on the left it starts the bkgd from that length value and repeats-y but it doesn't seem to want to start from the top length value I gave it. I've done it before so I don't know what it wont' work now.
If you look at the CSS for this site that I did you'll see what I mean: http://thanksgivingbuffet.com/ http://thanksgivingbuffet.com/css/tgb.css Unless, the limitation is that you can't have a bkgd repeat-y from any other place than the top and vice versa. But I don't know. If I had written the actual XHTML I would have made it work differently but, that is the challenge with the CSS Zen project - it's to take David Shea's code and manipulate via the CSS only. You can't touch the HTML. See here: http://www.csszengarden.com/ Elli --- Bill Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Elli, > > I don't believe that tiling works like that. If you > set > background-repeat, it repeats for the whole length > or width or both of > the element. I'm pretty sure you can't set it to > start at x and repeat > in one direction or the other, because how would the > system know whether > to repeat up, down, left or right? > > Best bet is to use some sort of wrapper with a > padding to achieve it. I > had to accomplish something similar a while back and > I did with negative > margins, but in your case, that may not work since > you have text flow > issues to worry about in this case. > > Let me know if you need help with a wrapper > configuration. > > Best, > Bill Brown > TheHolierGrail.com > > Elli Vizcaino wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am working on a CSS Zen Garden project - was > given > > to me as a design test for a potential job. I'm > having > > an issue with a background image that I have set > to > > repeat y and start at left 211px, within the > > #supportingText div (red border) but, it won't > start > > tiling from the length value of 211px. It starts > from > > top of div and I really need it to start from > 211px so > > the paint splashes in the bkgd show through. I've > > tried all kinds of combinations of keywords and > length > > values and nothing seems to work. I am baffled by > this > > since I've been able to set these values in > previous > > project without a problem. When I set the pixel in > the > > horizontal value it works but I just don't > understand > > why it won't budge for the top. Can someone please > > help??? > > > > http://e7flux.com/csszengarden/chaoticspring.html > > > > > > TIA, > > Elli > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > > List policies -- > http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > > Supported by evolt.org -- > http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
