You cannot specify the width of the background-image in the "background" shorthand property. You'll need to make the image the exact width that you need.
When setting a background you are limited to background-image,background-repeat,background-position, background-color and background attachment. See a detailed overview here: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Keith Kaiser <wa0...@gmail.com> wrote: > When setting the background in CSS can you set the image width at the > same time? > > Example; > background: #00ff00 url('smiley.gif width:50') no-repeat fixed center; > > Or something like that anyway. > > Thanks. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] > 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/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/