background image in body tag

Eric · Oct 29, 2005

Can i do this?

<body background="GetImage.cgi" bgcolor="gray" onLoad="UpdateClocks();" >

With GetImage.cgi just sending back the bytes of the particular image file i
want? will cgi override the bgcolor?
Anything special needed in the cgi (if i can do this)?

Thanks
Eric

David Dorward · Oct 29, 2005

Eric said:
<body background="GetImage.cgi" bgcolor="gray"

Background images and colours should be handled by CSS, not HTML.

With GetImage.cgi just sending back the bytes of the particular image file
i want? will cgi override the bgcolor?

A URL that returns an image file is a URL that returns an image file. How
the server gets its data is immaterial to the client.

Anything special needed in the cgi (if i can do this)?

No. (Although you obviously need to send the correct content-type headers,
and probably want to set cache control headers so the user doesn't have to
repeated download the image).

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background image in body tag

Eric

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