This is when you know you’re not quite getting it: I’ve been able to change the body background to an image, and able to change the background of the text within the borders to a different color, but not to change the background of the text to an image. But what I’ve learned from the below is that the image itself and the code for the image is not the problem:
Once again I get the image of a living being. Visualizing a geneological mapping and the crossing over of families that lead into new areas, new stories, even as the individual lives meet and meet again. Each life has many areas that it connects on with other lives, and yet each life, once a decision, a choice is made, can go only in one direction, beginning here and ending there.
Still playing with possible solutions to the layout since I really want to know what works and what doesn’t before I need to depend upon it. Placement is going to matter as much as color and text to tell a story that’s dependent upon links and relationships.
Haven’t gotten the knack yet of the <style type=”text/css”> background-image: url (“what4copy.jpg”); </style> but I suspect it may be dependent on the image and size. Meanwhile, I have my #centerlarge column:
Oh goody–one more feat accomplished; figured the way to put a different color behind the text within a column, or block. All it calls for is this code in the <head> section of the individual html, without any change in the css sheet:
<style type=”text/css”>
#right {
background: #999999;
}
</style>
There are two things that bother me online and it’s possibly overcome by skill that ole dopey me hasn’t developed yet, but 1) I’d like to do away with the portion of the URL in a box to insert a hyperlink; that “http://” that makes you either double up the http://, or have to backspace and delete it because it’s so much easier to copy and paste the entire URL rather than pick it away from its beginning.
2) the two-letter state designations in drop-down menus that take a whole lot more time and effort than typing those two letters in directly.
Nice setup here and it looks perfect for a hypertext story in the many odd-sized writing spaces in so many different positions but…
Would they behave if the boxes were to show up singly or in small groups? Methinks not, since they appear to be co-dependent.
Just realized that any of my progress with html in What Was That 2? doesn’t work in IE. No borders. No proper color text. No columns. Something I did after I did what worked made it unwork.
…two scenarios in the learning of html and all that. The first is a minor quirk whereby the right (third) ‘column’ begins below the center when there IS a center column, and I think that may have to do with the margin setups I put in but for now that’s not a priority. I’m also looking into the grid layout as a better alternative to this structure since then the placement of text or image can be wherever I choose rather than dependent upon its buddies.
The second thing I’m working on is the background-image: url (“http://susangibb.net….jpg”) to replace the solid colors either of the whole page, or within the specified bordered areas. This one seems just out of reach because it should be simple and I’m getting close to the resolution but not quite there yet.
Meanwhile, in the background, I’m reviving the Storyspace piece Pigeon and Shoe with new characters and considering what to do about Paths.
Yeah, that worked: creating a new class id for a different sized left column so that I’m not restricted to a particular box.
Here’s how it stands so far: What Was That? Version2
Actually, right after I posted it came to me that there’s probably a way of changing column widths simply by adding classes for them. For example, while I have #head, #left, #center, and #right, with particular attributes of width, I should be able to add #lefta, #leftb, etc. with different width assignments such as 150px or 400 px, and if warranted (i.e., wanting other columns to appear on the page as well) use them with corresponding center and right column assignments.
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