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emily01

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Ok, so by the question you've guessed that I am super noob.

So far I have not seen how to make this work but here it is. Problem:

I uploaded an image that has color atop and fades to light toward the bottom. This was supposed to be my background image. I set it to be large enough to fill the entire page or screen which shows up fine. I wanted to add text on top of the background image but it keeps putting the text at the bottom of the image. What have I missed?

Do I need to do a "table background" to make the text appear on top of what is supposed to be a background but only showing up as a simple large image. I'm sorry if this is the dumbest CSS question but I really don't know.

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It sounds as if you are using a normal html image with the <img... > tag if the text is going below it. For a background-image you need to use

body { background: url(image.jpg) fixed top center no-repeat; } 

 

Put the above in a stylesheet or inside head section style tags <style type="text/css">........</style> and it shound cover the body background and then your html markup will show on top of it.

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Wickham, thank you so much for answering this question for me. You were right, I was using HTML img tag. I was using the old <body background> tag at that! This totally worked. I cannot believe in all my CSS/HTML books and sheets I could not find the answer to something this elementary in them. They seem to dive into the deeper stuff first. Thanks again!

 

It sounds as if you are using a normal html image with the <img... > tag if the text is going below it. For a background-image you need to use

body { background: url(image.jpg) fixed top center no-repeat; } 

 

Put the above in a stylesheet or inside head section style tags <style type="text/css">........</style> and it shound cover the body background and then your html markup will show on top of it.

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Books, to me, do not seem to be structured very well in teaching the very basics but that doesn't mean they are not good.

 

As suggested elsewhere, you don't need books because you have the ultimate online book right at your finger tips...it's called Google for Dummies (emphasis mine). :)

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