I have Front page 2000 and am having trouble sizeing pictures.  I have set
the width and height to 100 percent but when I view the page in Mozilla
Firefox, the image comes up smaller than the original.  When I tried to use a
picture as a background, it repeated the picture to the right of the
original.  Any ideas on how to correct these problems?
Thank you, Dena320

This is a VB group, not a web design group.
You should ask somewhere else. (I don't
know offhand of a specific group to suggest.)

  Personally, I'd say that Front Page is the first
problem. And using a WYSIWYG editor doesn't
help. (WYSIWYG: what-you-see-is-what-you-get.
In other words, graphical tools that write the code
for you.) FP is Microsoft's product, designed to work
with IE, and IE is notoriously non-standards-compliant.
If you must use a WYSIWYG, much better to use a
neutral one.

  IMG width and height are in pixels. Percentage might
work in some cases but it's not standard. Why wouldn't
you just use actual size? Anything else will be distorted.
   I just tested an image in a page in both IE 5.00 and
Firefox 1.5.0.1. I changed both width and height to "100%".
(With and without parentheses.) In IE the picture disappeared
altogether. In Firefox is was enlarged to 100% of its parent
element, a table.

  It's supposed to do that. If you're using CSS you can
try background-repeat. The optional values are repeat,
repeat-x, repeat-y, no-repeat. (I don't know whether
IE supports that. IE CSS support is very outdated. Also,
background-repeat can be used to stop the repeating but
not to enlarge the image.)
  Without CSS the default behavior is to be tiled in both
directions. ( "repeat") What sense would it make to enlarge
background pictures to screen size? Then the picture
you put into your page on a 19" monitor would be a blurry
mess on a 25" monitor and a crumpled mess on a 15"
monitor. In fact, since people use different toolbars and
browsers, almost no one would see your picture properly.

   Neither HTML nor CSS is evenly supported across browsers,
and HTML especially is not a precise standard. It's just
a basic layout specification. That's why it's a problem to
use WYSIWYG webpage editors. The only way to get a
really good page is to keep testing it in at least IE and
Firefox - and fiddling with the code - until you get something
that works right in both. A WYSIWYG editor tends to make a
bloated mess of the code and tends to have its own style
of accomplishing things. That makes it hard to go back
and do the kind of minor editing that you're faced with now.

try:  microsoft.public.frontpage.client


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