sam_h Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 Hi, I have a simple header and two column layout all surrounded by a #outer. one colomn is #page and one is #right I want to be able to set the background-image of #outer so that it is also the background for #page and #right but for some reason it stops being the background as soon as it gets to the top of those divs. if that makes any sense?! is there a way to get around this? here is my code: body { background-color:#f3f3f3; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:0.88em; line-height:1.5em; color:#444; } #outer { width:970px; text-align:center; margin:0 auto 50px; padding:0; background-image:url(/Images/body_bg.jpg); background-position:top; background-repeat:repeat-y; } #page { width:640px; text-align:left; padding: 10px 0 10px 10px; float:left; } #right { float:right; text-align:left; width: 300px; padding:10px 10px 0 0; } html: <body> <div id="outer"> <a href="/index.html"><img src="/Images/header_test_new6.png" border="0" alt="OnYaHead.com Logo"/></a> <div id="right"> content here </div> <div id="page"> more content here </div> </div> </body> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dropfaith Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 can you give me a link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Add: overflow:auto; to #outer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dropfaith Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 to add to that answer ad a hieght to outer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Adding the CSS I mentioned means he won't need to add a height to outer - it will expand to wrap around the contents inside. If he adds a height, it won't expand, it will just add scrollbars when it gets higher than the allowed height. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam_h Posted October 9, 2008 Author Share Posted October 9, 2008 thank you haku, that worked a treat!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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