How to stretch a background image?

[Bob Altman]

Hi all,

I posted an earlier question to the microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general
newsgroup asking how to set the background of a client-side table cell to a
gradient, and I received this answer:

If you know what the start and end colors are in advance, we can
pre-design an image with the expected gradient color range, then load
and stretch the static image to the table cell.

How do I stretch the static image? The Style property builder for a table
cell lets me specify the background image location, tiling, scrolling, and
position. But I can't find any obvious way to tell it to stretch the image
to fill the cell.

TIA - Bob

 

[HillBilly]

Have you heard of CSS? There's an x-repeat attribute that can be used

 

[Bob Altman]

Have you heard of CSS?

Heard of it? Yes. Have any experience applying it in the real world? No.

There's an x-repeat attribute that can be used

I did a quick Google search for "CSS x-repeat" and found a couple of
articles that explain that it allows the image to be repeated vertically or
horizontally. That sounds to me like the same effect as "tiling", which I
can do directly in the Style property builder, but that's not the effect I
want. I want the image to dynamically resize to fill its container.

 

[Jialiang Ge [MSFT]]

Hello Bob,

You may want to have a lot at this article:

http://webdesign.about.com/od/css3/f/blfaqbgsize.htm

It demonstrates how to stretch a background image. See the section "Faking
a Stretched Background Image Over a Smaller Space". It also provides demos
at the link "see an example". There is no built-in css style to stretch an
image background.

If you have any other questions or concerns, please DON'T hesitate to tell
me.

Regards,
Jialiang Ge ([email protected], remove 'online.')
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[Bob Altman]

Thanks Jialiang.