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King Kong Posted at 8:43 am on April 26, 2009
whats the code to get the background behind the text a different one to the main background?

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anonomouse Posted at 1:29 am on June 29, 2009
Do not *twitch* use *twitch* tables *twitch* for layout... *twitch*. Tables kill little kittens.

Anyway, to your question:
pleaseremove is right. You need to have put the text in a div tag. Your website is probably like this:

Code:
<html>
<head>
...
</head>
<body background=something.gif>
My text here!!!
</body>
</html>

You need to put your text in a <div> tag ("division") to set it apart from the other elements of the web page. By using pleaseremove's code:
Code:
<div style="background-image:url('someimage.gif');">some text</div>
you change the background of whatever is in that <div> tag. <div> tags also have very precise control over what they do. If you want to get into web page design, I would recommend you go through this tutorial to learn CSS.

pleaseremove Posted at 3:39 am on June 7, 2009
Code:

<div style="background-image:url('someimage.gif');">some text</div>
RIVERA1994 Posted at 8:29 pm on June 6, 2009
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steven7 Posted at 8:48 am on April 26, 2009
go to w3schools.com, you probably nee to set the txt inside a table, and change the table background the same way you would the body
Darkane Posted at 8:48 am on April 26, 2009
I'm not too good at this, but couldn't you just make a table as a textbox and give that a background for the same effect?
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