A background bar..

[MTsoul]

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 :cy:

 

[Pablo]

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]

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]

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

 

[RakeshRaja]

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.