a background bar..

MTsoul · 03-16-2004, 10:30 PM

Hey,

When I put an image of 20px by 1px as the background of a cell, eg. <td background="image.jpg">, and the cell is a verticle LONG one (so it acts as a bar), I noticed that the bar doesn't appear in the first half of the second when the page loads. I figured that making the repeat image the smallest possible, but i also noticed that the browser needs to calculate and puts all of those 1px image one by one below each other.

Here's my question: What's the best height for the background image? so that it loads fast, and is put on the screen fast.

Thanks

Pablo · 03-17-2004, 02:30 AM

what you want to do is make a new line in a table and have background black and set it to 1 heigh, there is no need for an image.

MTsoul · 03-17-2004, 10:19 AM

But i want the image to repeat vertically (the image is a horizontal gradient), so that the whole long cell looks like a bar..

Anthony · 03-17-2004, 09:05 PM

Why not just load a graphic instead if its that short?

dotcommakers · 03-18-2004, 03:16 AM

just build bigger image but keept it in small size... compress it... that is the only one option... if you cna show the url it will be better.

03-16-2004, 10:30 PM	THREAD STARTER #1 (permalink)
MTsoul New Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 12	a background bar.. Hey, When I put an image of 20px by 1px as the background of a cell, eg. <td background="image.jpg">, and the cell is a verticle LONG one (so it acts as a bar), I noticed that the bar doesn't appear in the first half of the second when the page loads. I figured that making the repeat image the smallest possible, but i also noticed that the browser needs to calculate and puts all of those 1px image one by one below each other. Here's my question: What's the best height for the background image? so that it loads fast, and is put on the screen fast. Thanks __________________ life is like a box of crap.. except there is no box. cookies!

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Pablo NamePros Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 44	what you want to do is make a new line in a table and have background black and set it to 1 heigh, there is no need for an image. __________________ Click Link for Java IRC PHP-Live IRC: pgardner.net:6667, Channel: #php.

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MTsoul New Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 12	But i want the image to repeat vertically (the image is a horizontal gradient), so that the whole long cell looks like a bar.. __________________ life is like a box of crap.. except there is no box. cookies!

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03-17-2004, 09:05 PM	#4 (permalink)
Anthony NamePros Expert Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: NYC Posts: 9,132	Why not just load a graphic instead if its that short?

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dotcommakers Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: world wide web Posts: 2,062 Follow @dotcommakers	just build bigger image but keept it in small size... compress it... that is the only one option... if you cna show the url it will be better.

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