background/table problem

[Eternity]

I am tryed to put a background image in one tables. The bg image itself is 25X1 but when I put in in the table for some reason it loops for only 2 pixels of the bgimage. I have a image attached to show what I mean.

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100"><tr>
<td width="96" background="images/catbg.gif">
<img src="images/catleft.gif">
</td>

  <td width="90%" valign="top" background="images/catbg.gif" align="center">
<b>title</b></td>

<td width="96" background="images/catbg.gif">
<img src="images/catright.gif">
</td>
</tr></table> 

I also have to images on the sides of it... but for some reason I cant seem to get it. can any give me a insight?

Thanks.

[Mark T.]

You said the image was 25x1. Is the 25 the height or the width? If it is the height, the problem might be there. You need to define a height in the table cell as well, because it usually won't wrap around the background image.

[Eternity]

25 is the height.. but the odd thing is when the bg was 23X1 it did the same thing and when I try to use height it doesnt to a thing :\

Note: I am working with vb templates


I also took out the two side images and then it seemd to work fine.. but I need to have the images there so I have no clue why its not workig even if I *** height tags to it

[sowen]

Try a spacer.gif (1px x 1px transparent) put it in the table cell and set it's height to 25px see if that works.

<img src="images/spacer.gif height="25">

[Eternity]

i get the same thing and it makes it worse ><

[isotope235]

Sorry, but I'm not following along.

Have you got a link we can check out?