[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux, Perl, CGI, Background attribute...

Tue Jul 17 16:53:36 CDT 2001

Sorry, the code shown was intended to be seen as 2 snippets: (a) as it
was when attempting to use a background url, and (b) when simply using a
background color (i.e.: one <BODY ...> tag per page/file).

Daniel Hauck wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure and I don't have the time to test this, but I don't think you
> can have more than one <body> statement in a page.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred James" <fredjame at concentric.net>
> To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 4:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Linux, Perl, CGI, Background attribute...
> 
> > Page source looks like this:
> > (code omitted)
> > <BODY BACKGROUND="../path/image.jpg">
> > (code omitted)
> > and it doesn't work, though the this one for color does:
> > (code omitted)
> > <BODY BGCOLOR="orange">
> > (code omitted)
> >
> > MadHat wrote:
> > >
> > > At 12:55 PM 7/17/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> > > >The HTML BODY tag attribute BACKGROUND, points to the url of a graphic
> > > >file to use as the (tiled) background for the page.
> > > >
> > > ><BODY BACKGROUND="url">
> > > >
> > > >I have this to working in an *.HTML file, But I have not been able to
> do
> > > >so in a Perl *.cgi file, with or without the CGI.pm
> > > >
> > > >Any pointers would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > when you views the source what do you see?  How are you trying to use it
> in
> > > the CGI?
> > >
> > > print "<BODY BACKGROUND=\"url\">\n";
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > use CGI qw/:standard/;
> > > print start_html(-title=>'test page',
> > >                   -body=>{-background=>'url',
> > >                           -bgcolor=>'white'});
> > >
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