Thanks, Richard! I tried putting it in the body tag and it worked. Nout sure I quite understand why, yet, but I think I will when I take a close look at it.
Again, thanks. Peter On Feb 23, 3:45 am, Richard Aday <[email protected]> wrote: > Or, why don't you just set that background image on the body tag and see if > it does what you are looking for (Make sure you specify repeat-y). > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Richard Aday <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > I answered this question about a week or two on this list: > > > Here is an example on how to do it. The trick is with the CSS rule for > >> html and body. > > >> *viewport.html* > > >> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" " > >>http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> > > >> <html> > >> <head> > >> <title>ViewPort Example</title> > >> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="viewport.css"> > >> </head> > > >> <body> > > >> <div id="example">This div has 100% height and width of the viewport</div> > > >> </body> > > >> </html> > > >> *viewport.css* > >> html, body { > >> overflow: hidden; > >> height: 100%; > >> } > > >> #example { > >> height: 100%; > >> background-color: blue; > >> } > > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:46 AM, peter <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I am trying to have a black vertical bar on the left of my web pages. > >> I want it to go to the bottom of the page. Here is the code I used in > >> the style sheet: > > >> #menu { > >> position: absolute; > >> top: 0px; > >> left: 0px; > >> padding: 10px; > >> height: 100%; > >> width: 200px; > >> background-image: url(/images/lefttile.gif); > >> background-repeat: repeat-y; > >> } > > >> "lefttile.gif" is a black square. The bar only goes part way down the > >> pages. > > >> Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > >> Thanks, > > >> Peter > > > -- > > -Richard Aday > > -- > -Richard Aday --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ -- You received this because you are subscribed to the "Design the Web with CSS" at Google groups. To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
