Divs plus Tables?

[starshinesky]

I made a Website layout that I adore! I think it is the nicest one I have made yet and it seems virtually fool proof. Except one problem, It was designed to have Div coding, and image mapping.To pull it all together I would love the bottom to be designed like a table, stretching as content is added. Is this impossible? Or just not probable? I just thought I would ask because thats how I imaged it would look best. If not I can just continue coding like I would have.

[katie-kate]

What do you mean by "stretching as content is added"? I think I have an idea; if you look at my site [http://kokun.faded-chimera.net], the yellow bar isn't a set size and instead grows as text is added. That could still be done with div coding, as proven by my layout, which was kindly created for me by my friend Megori. When I'm coding a div layout and want something to stretch, what I do is copy the bottom pixel of my design and save it as bg.jpg, and then use it as the background image in my CSS coding, like this:

body {background: url('bg.jpg'); repeat: y-repeat;}

That ensures that image will repeat down the page as you add content.

[Nelson]

That's right. One thing though... It should be:

Code:

body {
   background: url(bg.jpg) repeat-y; /*take not of the repeat code*/
   }

or equivalently,

Code:

body {
   background-image:url(bg.jpg);
   background-repeat:repeat-y;
   }

That should do it. Good luck!

[Vangs]

I've actually resolved this thread over MSN messenger with the original poster, but to explain what it was, it was just having a background image repeat indefinitely for the length of the content.

Nelson, what katie-kate wrote was in fact correct, you can define the background css how she did.

[Nelson]

repeat: y-repeat; is correct?!

[Vangs]

Sorry never realised they had the value the wrong way around, I thought you were refering to the fact they placed both the url and repeat in the same line.

[katie-kate]

Ahh, thanks for catching that, Nelson. I didn't have any code on hand to properly quote, and I almost always put it backwards the first time around, haha.