On Oct 19, 2010, at 3:32 AM, Climis, Tim wrote:

>> For instance, in the <img> tag, you are able to control the
>> width and the height of the image. How do you do this in the CSS?
> 
> For background images, you can't.  You have to do it by opening the image 
> file and changing its size, and then saving it.

You can control the size of background images: that is what the background-size 
property is for. Supported by Gecko 1.9.2 (Fx 3.6). WebKit (Safari 5+, recent 
Chrome) Opera 10.5 +. Probably IE 9beta, although I can't test that one.

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#the-background-size

a couple of examples:

http://dev.l-c-n.com/CSS3_border-background/background-size.html

Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
http://l-c-n.com/





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