Background Image not displaying on webpage

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spiderguy84 0 Newbie Poster

14 Years Ago

I have setup an .php that uses a template I made with Dreamweaver. I would like to have a background image behind the content, stripes show up everywhere except the table. Here is my code for the template

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title><style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
	background-image: url(http://www.backgroundlabs.com/backgrounds/358.gif);
	background-repeat: repeat;
}
-->
</style><font size="+4">~~~FeedTitle~~~</font></title>
<meta name="description" content="~~~FeedDescription~~~">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
a {
	font-size: 30px;
}
.a font {
	text-align: center;
}
</style></head>
<link href="http://www.feedforall.com/rss2html/ffa-29.css" rel=stylesheet type=text/css>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" background="http://www.backgroundlabs.com/backgrounds/358.gif">
<img src="http://www.316apps.com/headerlogo.png" width="965" height="203" />
<h1 align="center" class="a"><b>~~~FeedTitle~~~ </b></h1>
<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" align="center" bordercolor="#333333">
  <tr valign="center" bgcolor="#F4F4F4"> 
    <td width="88%" height="2" class="a"><font size="+6"><CENTER>~~~FeedDescription~~~</CENTER></font></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<span class="a"><br>
~~~BeginItemsRecord~~~ ~~~FeedMaxItems=50~~~ 
</span>
<table width="75%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" align="center" bordercolor="#666666">
  <tr valign="top"> 
    <td height="47"> 
      <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="15" align="center">
        <tr valign="top" bgcolor="#F4F4F4"> 
          <td height="23" width="50%"> 
            <p class="a"><span class="cc"><b><font size="+5">~~~ItemPubShortDate~~~</font></b> <a href="~~~ItemLink~~~">~~~ItemTitle~~~</a></span></p>
            </td>
        </tr>
         <tr valign="top"> 
          <td height="17" width="50%"><span class="cc"> <span class="a"><font size="+5">~~~ItemDescription~~~</font></span></span></td>
        </tr> 
       </table>
   </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p><span class="a">~~~EndItemsRecord~~~ </span>
<p align="center">copyright Company Name 2006 all rights reserved; <br>
  <font size="-6">rss2html template created by <a href="http://www.feedforall.com">FeedForAll</a><br>
  </font> </p>
</body>
</html>

In the design window in Dreamweaver, I can see the background stripes, but when I upload the template to my server and view it, there is only white background. Can anyone help me with this?

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hielo 65 Veteran Poster

14 Years Ago

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title><font size="+4">~~~FeedTitle~~~</font></title>
<meta name="description" content="~~~FeedDescription~~~">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<link href="http://www.feedforall.com/rss2html/ffa-29.css" rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<style type="text/css">
a {
    font-size: 30px;
}
.a font {
    text-align: center;
}


body {
    background: #FFFFFF url(http://www.backgroundlabs.com/backgrounds/358.gif) scroll repeat top left;
}

</style>
</head>
<body>
...

MagicMedia 10 Junior Poster

14 Years Ago

I have setup an .php that uses a template I made with Dreamweaver. I would like to have a background image behind the content, stripes show up everywhere except the table. Here is my code for the template

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title><style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
	background-image: url(http://www.backgroundlabs.com/backgrounds/358.gif);
	background-repeat: repeat;
}
-->
</style><font size="+4">~~~FeedTitle~~~</font></title>
<meta name="description" content="~~~FeedDescription~~~">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
a {
	font-size: 30px;
}
.a font {
	text-align: center;
}
</style></head>
<link href="http://www.feedforall.com/rss2html/ffa-29.css" rel=stylesheet type=text/css>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" background="http://www.backgroundlabs.com/backgrounds/358.gif">
<img src="http://www.316apps.com/headerlogo.png" width="965" height="203" />
<h1 align="center" class="a"><b>~~~FeedTitle~~~ </b></h1>
<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" align="center" bordercolor="#333333">
  <tr valign="center" bgcolor="#F4F4F4"> 
    <td width="88%" height="2" class="a"><font size="+6"><CENTER>~~~FeedDescription~~~</CENTER></font></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<span class="a"><br>
~~~BeginItemsRecord~~~ ~~~FeedMaxItems=50~~~ 
</span>
<table width="75%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" align="center" bordercolor="#666666">
  <tr valign="top"> 
    <td height="47"> 
      <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="15" align="center">
        <tr valign="top" bgcolor="#F4F4F4"> 
          <td height="23" width="50%"> 
            <p class="a"><span class="cc"><b><font size="+5">~~~ItemPubShortDate~~~</font></b> <a href="~~~ItemLink~~~">~~~ItemTitle~~~</a></span></p>
            </td>
        </tr>
         <tr valign="top"> 
          <td height="17" width="50%"><span class="cc"> <span class="a"><font size="+5">~~~ItemDescription~~~</font></span></span></td>
        </tr> 
       </table>
   </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p><span class="a">~~~EndItemsRecord~~~ </span>
<p align="center">copyright Company Name 2006 all rights reserved; <br>
  <font size="-6">rss2html template created by <a href="http://www.feedforall.com">FeedForAll</a><br>
  </font> </p>
</body>
</html>

In the design window in Dreamweaver, I can see the background stripes, but when I upload the template to my server and view it, there is only white background. Can anyone help me with this?

For starters, there are a ton of errors in this code. I just inputted this into WC3 validation and there are 20 errors and 1 warning. Try to correct those errors and then try again.

clark angus 0 Newbie Poster

14 Years Ago

wow great info i am also using wc3 now

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spiderguy84 0 Newbie Poster · Answer 1 · 2010-09-23T01:35:32+00:00

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title><font size="+4">~~~FeedTitle~~~</font></title>
<meta name="description" content="~~~FeedDescription~~~">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<link href="http://www.feedforall.com/rss2html/ffa-29.css" rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<style type="text/css">
a {
    font-size: 30px;
}
.a font {
    text-align: center;
}


body {
    background: #FFFFFF url(http://www.backgroundlabs.com/backgrounds/358.gif) scroll repeat top left;
}

</style>
</head>
<body>
...

Made those changes and it still doesn't show.

ko ko 97 Practically a Master Poster · Answer 2 · 2010-09-23T19:46:26+00:00

Try this:

body {
background: #FFFFFF url('backgrounds/358.gif') scroll repeat top left;
}

hielo 65 Veteran Poster · Answer 3 · 2010-09-23T22:11:17+00:00

on my previous post, I forgot to include the css for the tables, but the background does show up for me:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>~~~FeedTitle~~~</title>
<meta name="description" content="~~~FeedDescription~~~">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<link href="http://www.feedforall.com/rss2html/ffa-29.css" rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<style type="text/css">
a {
    font-size: 30px;
}
.a font {
    text-align: center;
}


body {
    background: #FFFFFF url('http://www.backgroundlabs.com/backgrounds/358.gif') scroll repeat top left;
}
table{background-color:white;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<img src="http://www.316apps.com/headerlogo.png" width="965" height="203" />
<h1 align="center" class="a"><b>~~~FeedTitle~~~ </b></h1>
<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" align="center" bordercolor="#333333">
  <tr valign="center" bgcolor="#F4F4F4"> 
    <td width="88%" height="2" class="a"><font size="+6"><CENTER>~~~FeedDescription~~~</CENTER></font></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<span class="a"><br />
~~~BeginItemsRecord~~~ ~~~FeedMaxItems=50~~~ 
</span>
<table width="75%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" align="center" bordercolor="#666666">
  <tr valign="top"> 
    <td height="47"> 
      <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="15" align="center">
        <tr valign="top" bgcolor="#F4F4F4"> 
          <td height="23" width="50%"> 
            <p class="a"><span class="cc"><b><font size="+5">~~~ItemPubShortDate~~~</font></b> <a href="~~~ItemLink~~~">~~~ItemTitle~~~</a></span></p>
            </td>
        </tr>
         <tr valign="top"> 
          <td height="17" width="50%"><span class="cc"> <span class="a"><font size="+5">~~~ItemDescription~~~</font></span></span></td>
        </tr> 
       </table>
   </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p><span class="a">~~~EndItemsRecord~~~ </span>
<p align="center">copyright Company Name 2006 all rights reserved; <br />
  <font size="-6">rss2html template created by <a href="http://www.feedforall.com">FeedForAll</a><br />
  </font> </p>
</body>
</html>

spiderguy84 0 Newbie Poster · Answer 4 · 2010-09-23T22:59:45+00:00

Not for me. I put it in there and uploaded to my server and it still doesn't show the background

hielo 65 Veteran Poster · Answer 5 · 2010-09-23T23:45:10+00:00

What browser are you using? What's the url to your page?

Dandello 8 Posting Whiz in Training · Answer 6 · 2010-09-24T04:56:52+00:00

Some servers cache the pages, especially css files so you have to use CRTL F5 to force the refresh.