macromedia Dreamweaver 8

Using a Background Graphic

In this exercise, you’ll add a background graphic to a page. A background graphic can be a small graphic that tiles across your page by repeating itself to the extent of the width and height of the browser window. A tiled background graphic has no effect on the appearance of scroll bars (or lack thereof) on your page. You can also use larger images as background graphics and use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control their placement, as well as whether they tile horizontally, vertically, both, or not at all. Background graphics will automatically tile in old browsers that do not support CSS.

You can define both a background color and a background graphic for your pages. On slow connections or in older slower browsers, ...