Scrolling text box Options

[burning pretzels]

I searched this and nothing came up, so sorry if this has been covered. I have a free account, and I know you can make a scrolling entry box. Is there any way to have an image inside the box(i.e. have a black background, and have a separate picture as the background of the box)? This might be impossible, I don't know. If it is, could someone someone please just post the code for a regular scroll box? Oh, and I know it is impossible to make each entry scroll, I'm just looking for a box with all the entries in it. I'm using the generator style, if that helps. Hope I was clear enough.

[*Libertie*]

<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com --><br />div{<br />position:absolute;<br />left:##px;<br />top:##px;<br />width:##px;<br />height:##px;<br />border: 3px solid #000000;<br />overflow:auto;<br />clip:rect(auto);<br />background-color: transparent;<br />}<br />td div{<br />position:relative;<br />left:1;<br />top:1;<br />height:auto;<br />width:auto;<br />overflow:hidden;<br />border:0;<br />}<br />table{<br />width:100%;<br />margin-left:0%;<br />margin-right:0%;<br />}<br />table table{<br />width:95%;<br />margin:0;<br />}<br />table table table{<br />width:0;<br />}<br /><!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->

(from the LJ community everything_lj)

I suppose you can try changing the background-color: transparent to an image, but I don't think it'll work. You'd hafta make the background image a regular page background and just position the scrollbox (the ##px above) to fit on top of the area you want.

[burning pretzels]

okay, thanks so much. but it puts my header in the box, is there any way to take it out?

[*Libertie*]

Hmm... I've never seen this tutorial, but now that I have I'll have to try it out. Give this a shot:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/every...lj/3061359.html

[burning pretzels]

I've seen that already, thanks. It never works for me, because I already have half that stuff under global head, and I don't know what to delete and how to arrange everything. And I don't get the lastn_website thing, it's basically just a repeat of what it says under global_head. The way that code is posted is just confusing.

[*Libertie*]

The LASTN_WEBSITE part is very important; it's what puts your header image on the page and makes it separate from the entries. I tried it out with some quick-mock-up-in-paint images, and it worked great on my spare account. Make sure you have a website listed in your profile, and if you can't figure it out, go ahead and post your overrides in this thread and I'll see what I can do with it.

[burning pretzels]

you're so nice, thanks for having so much patience with me. I hate to ask this, but I can't figure this out for the life of me, so could you do whatever you can with this?

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[*Libertie*]

I'm really sorry this is so late, but I saw that you're online..

Was this close to what you were wanting?

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