background Options

[Smarmosaur]

really quick question.
i'm trying to position my background (on myspace, obviously) with pixels:

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background-position: 148px 200px;

the horizontal positioning (148px) works, but the vertical doesn't.
it this a myspace glitch, am i doing something wrong (although it looks pretty self explanatory, what's to mess up?), or is it just a coincidence?

[fixtatik]

absolute positioning of backgrounds has always worked for me (both horizontal and vertical). there's not another background property you're using that might be messing it up?

[Smarmosaur]

nope.
the only background related things i have are image, position, and scroll. i tried it on a different myspace with only the background and it still didn't work.

[fixtatik]

what's your full code? i'm trying it with different styles, different coding, and they're all working for me.

[pandemonium]

how bout using the top & left attributes, something like this: (it's worth a try)

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background-position{top:148px; left:200px;}

[Melie]

you could also use relative and then put 50% in the margin-left. then put like -400px in the left. or however big the image so that you can center it. just adjust the -400 to wherever you want it to be.

that's what i do

[fixtatik]

unfortunately, neither of those would work. in CSS, the syntax is selector { property: value; }. there is no selector "background-position," as there's no HTML tag for it; it's just a CSS property.

you also can't relatively position a background, because if you use position:relative; then it will position the entire body relative to the <html> tag (which will move the entire profile).