Here is the code from the

pr0gr4mm3r — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:16:48 +0000

Here is the code from the stylesheet:

#mainnav_wrap {
text-align:center;
width:100%;
height:43px;
background-image: url(../images/nav_bgnd_rpt.png);
background-position: 0px 0px;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
position:absolute;
top:0px;
left:0px;
overflow:hidden;
z-index:1000;

display:block;
}

The image is repeating horizontally only. It looks like they faded it to black to avoid a hard tiled edge.

Do you think the idea is to

tochiro — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:26:45 +0000

Do you think the idea is to have a wide enough background image so as to avoid tiling and make the right side and bottom of the image the same color as the background color?

I didn't look at the CSS,

kazimmerman — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:26:04 +0000

I didn't look at the CSS, but what appears to be happening is this image is the background, and all of the content is layered over it. I don't think anything special is going on here.