Why does it do that?! Options

[megz3002]

Hello all... I'm hoping someone can help me and my fried brain.

I'm fairly new at web designing, I took a class in college but I can't figure this one out.

When creating webpages I go to view them on my 2 computers (MAC and PC). It views fine on my mac but when I take it to the PC (both using internet explorer) the background image repeats itself at the bottom. It will show the whole background image then start to repeat the top of the page again. Why does it do this?!?!

Is there a way to stop it from doing that?

Thank you so much for your time.

Example: http://www.itsnewtomeconsignments.com/html/products.html

[JamieHarrop]

You should really be using CSS to define your background. By using CSS, you'll be able to define whether the background should be repeated or not.

See http://htmlhelp.com/reference/css/quick-tutorial.html and http://htmlhelp.com/reference/css/color-ba...background.html

[pandy]

IE Mac and IE Win aren't the same browser. But that isn't the problem here. A HTML background will tile if there's room for it to do so. Different screen resolution, different text size... Change the text size up and down in one of your browsers and see what happens.

You can stop tiling if you use a CSS background instead.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/colo...und-repeat.html

But you shouldn't use one big background image like that with "everything" on it, http://www.itsnewtomeconsignments.com/images/productpage.jpg . An image can't adopt to fit different window and text sizes. Only the maroon swirls should be a background. The logo/heading should be an inline image and it should have an alt text,
http://www.htmlhelp.com/feature/art3.htm . The art pictures should also be inline images. IMO all these images are content and shouldn't be backgrounds.

If you make those changes the page will be able to adopt.