background image problem in netscape

Hi,

I created 3 nested tables in netscape, and that worked great. However, when i try to put a background image in the celss, it does not tile it all the way. it only tiles it for like 40 pixels up and down. I tried getting rid of the inner table and the same problem still happens. the gif images i used for the background is 1px by 1 px in size. i just wanted that color to show up for the background. any thoughts?

Here's the stripped down code:
<table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1">
<tr>
<td width="139" height="22" background="images/themeImages/0-tab.gif">*</td>
<td width="461" height="22" bgcolor="#FFFAEF" background="images/themeImages/0-lightBg.gif">*</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" width="600" bgcolor="#461800" background="images/themeImages/0-mediumBar.gif">

stuff here

</td>
</tr>
</table>



[This message has been edited by machiavelli (edited October 20, 2000).]

You might be having problems using bgcolor AND background attributes together. Try getting rid of the background image and just use the bgcolor attribute to give you a background color and see if that works.

[This message has been edited by bakiwop (edited October 20, 2000).]

Netscape will not till a background image across a whole table (it restarts the image each <td> ). So having a background tile across a table wont work with Netscape (although it works beautifully with IE). I ran into this problem a while ago. There *might* be a work-around for this with Javascript (but I dont know it if there is). The only thing you could do is not use tables and try using CSS to do what you want.

Yes, Netscape sucks!

BUT, if you are only trying to get a background color for the table (and not some image) then use bgcolor="colorcode" instead of trying to tile an image. It loads faster and it works =).

[This message has been edited by velvEtY (edited October 20, 2000).]

Thnks for the help. it was the background image not tiling properly. got rid of it and just used colors. thanks for all the help.

[This message has been edited by machiavelli (edited October 23, 2000).]