Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Tell Us What You Think!
- Put Your HTML Page Online Today
- I. Your First Web Page
- Hour 1. Understanding HTML and XML
- Hour 2. Create a Web Page Right Now
- Hour 3. Linking to Other Web Pages
- Hour 4. Publishing Your HTML Pages
- II. Web Page Text
- Hour 5. Text Alignment and Lists
- Hour 6. Text Formatting and Font Control
- Hour 7. Email Links and Links Within a Page
- Hour 8. Creating HTML Forms
- III. Web Page Graphics
- Hour 9. Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics
- Hour 10. Putting Graphics on a Web Page
- Hour 11. Custom Backgrounds and Colors
- Hour 12. Creating Animated Graphics
- IV. Web Page Design
- Hour 13. Page Design and Layout
- Hour 14. Graphical Links and Imagemaps
- Hour 15. Advanced Layout with Tables
- Hour 16. Using Style Sheets
- V. Dynamic Web Pages
- Hour 17. Embedding Multimedia in Web Pages
- Hour 18. Interactive Pages with Applets and ActiveX
- Hour 19. Web Page Scripting for Non-Programmers
- Hour 20. Setting Pages in Motion with Dynamic HTML
- VI. Building a Web Site
- Hour 21. Multipage Layout with Frames
- Hour 22. Organizing and Managing a Web Site
- Hour 23. Helping People Find Your Web Pages
- Hour 24. Planning for the Future of HTML
- VII. Appendixes
- A. Readers' Most Frequently Asked Questions
- B. HTML Learning Resources on the Internet
- C. Complete HTML 4 Quick Reference
- D. HTML Character Entities
Background Image Tiles
Background tiles let you specify an image to be used as a wallpaper pattern behind all text and graphics in a document. You put the image filename after background= in the <body> tag at the beginning of your page:
<body background="image.jpg">
Like other Web graphics, background tiles must be in either the GIF or JPEG file format, and you can create them by using Paint Shop Pro or any other graphics software. For example, the tile.gif file referred to by the <body> tag in Figure 11.3 is an image of one small tile. As you can see in Figure 11.4, most Web browsers will repeat the image behind any text and images on the page, like floor tile.
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Figure 11.3 You can specify a background image to tile behind a page in the background attribute of the <body> tag.
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Figure 11.4 The tile.gif file (specified in Figure 11.3 and shown in Figure 11.5) is automatically repeated to cover the entire page.
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