Jack Michaelson — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:44:33 +0000

I tried for a bit, but have no time left. I'll keep you updated

Jack Michaelson — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 05:19:20 +0000

Ah, I understand now and I like the idea.
I'll have to dig into that, hopefully tonight.
Thanx

demonhale — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:34:38 +0000

Its hard to articulate but what your trying to do is fairly difficult to achieve. Ill try to outline it in a little more basic way, The two possible solutions would be:

1. use javascript to position one element to position absolutely.

and 2. the one I suggested which will also wouldnt be the best solution but could give you an idea.
The main content part would be floated(z-index and percentage)margins and would have to use an overflow control. That way it floats along the page and the header is fixed via the body background control and the bottom part a regular div positioned to fit at the bottom.

The keyword here is that the main content part would have to use overflow, in retrospect heres an example consider the content part the one on the left that sticks to the bottom, and the maintext and logo is the fixed body background. Thats what im suggesting... heres a previous splash screen of my site that uses this. http://www.demonhale.com/sample.html

Jack Michaelson — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:36:58 +0000

demonhale wrote: you can try and put on the top part div a margin-left: 0px and a margin-top:0px and position it absolutely so that it stays on top of the edge of the browser window while the rest of the body container overlaps as positioned absolutely with a negative margin-top to its main container and a higher z-index...

Thanx for digging into this. Unfortunately that won't make the background fixed when scrolled. No offense, but I think you misunderstood me or I misunderstand you (some punctuation perhaps?)

demonhale — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 04:04:31 +0000

you can try and put on the top part div a margin-left: 0px and a margin-top:0px and position it absolutely so that it stays on top of the edge of the browser window while the rest of the body container overlaps as positioned absolutely with a negative margin-top to its main container and a higher z-index...

Jack Michaelson — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:28:11 +0000

That's a possibility that might work, but I'm not sure if the top bar can be 'fixed' that way. IE7- doesn't support fixed elements consistently. Have to try it out this weekend, I'm at work now

Thanx

demonhale — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:16:48 +0000

why not for the top part use a regular div, then the rest of the body div you use a higher z-index to move the top div one layer below. And use the regular css BG for the bottom..

Jack Michaelson — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:38:31 +0000

Ah, thanx Megan. Still giving usefull replies

Seems indeed that I'll have to choose between top or bottom for IE.
I think I'll choose 'top'.

Or maybe trying to come up with something else? hmmm...
I'll keep you updated

Thanx!

Megan — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:53:00 +0000

Nice looking site

I'm doing some testing and it seems that it won't do a fixed background on the HTML element and the body element at the same time. If you take out the HTML call it works. So, it looks like you'll have to choose between the top one and the bottom one for IE.