background image will not strecth across the size of the screen

cluce · March 25, 2009

I have an image that I am placing as the background image for the background-effect but the only 2way it will display wide enough across the screen is to set the width property to width: 1590px; But that is the only way I know how to get the image to display wide enough for the screen. But when I delete the absolute positioning, I dont need the width property but I need the absolute positioning b/c thats the only way the z-index works. Is there a way to get theset the width the size of whatever screen is displying the page for the background-effect-a tag?

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
    <link href="Css/Div9.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="background-effect"></div>
  <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div id="page-container">
    <div id="header">
    <h1></h1>
      </div>
    <div id="main-nav">Main Nav</div>
    <div id="sidebar-a">
    <div class="padding">
</div>
</div>
<div id="content">
<div class="padding">
</div>
     </div>
    <div id="footer">Footer
    <div id="altnav">
</div>
</div>
</div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

#background-effect-a
{
    z-index: -1;
    height: 55px;
    position: absolute;
    margin: 0;
    top: 0px;
    left: 0px;
    width: 1590px;
    background-image: url('../Images/top_effect_blue.jpg');
}
    
body
{
    background-position: #ffffff;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Sans-serif;
    font-size: 12px;
    color: #666666;
    background-color: #010159;
}


.hidden {
display: none;
}

#page-container
{
    width: 800px;
    margin: auto;
    overflow:auto;
}

#header
{
    height: 140px;
    font-family: 'Ant Olive Cp';
    font-size: 32px;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
    padding-left: 5px;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
    background-image: url('../Images/header_bg1.jpg');
}

h1
{
    margin: 0;
    padding: 15px;
    font-size: medium;
}

#main-nav
{
    border-style: none solid solid solid;
    border-width: 1px;
    border-color: #FF6600;
    height: 25px;
    background-image: url('../Images/nav_bg1.jpg');
}

#sidebar-a
{
    border-width: 1px;
    border-color: #FF6600;
    float: left;
    width: 150px;
    line-height: 18px;
    border-left-style: solid;
    height: 446px;
    background-image: url('../Images/side_bg.jpg');
}

#sidebar-a .padding {
padding: 25px;
}

#content
{
    margin-left: 150px;
    padding-left: 10px;
    line-height: 18px;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
    height: 446px;
    border-width: 1px;
    border-color: #FF6600;
    border-style: none solid none none;
}

#content .padding {
padding: 25px;
}

#content h2 {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
padding-bottom: 15px;
}

#content p {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
    padding-bottom: 15px;
}

#footer
{
    border-width: 1px;
    border-color: #FF6600;
    border-style: solid none none none;
    height: 66px;
    clear: both;
    text-align: center;
    background-image: url('../Images/footer_bg1.jpg');
}

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