How to move a background image down in HTML 4.01

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I’m trying to convince a background image on my church website to move down a bit so some text next to the image is not obscured.

Here is the code. The closing tags are present in the code, but since there is a lot of other stuff between the end of what I’ve cited and the closing tags, I have not copied them here.

<head>
<title>Church</title>
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=iso-8859-1”>
<link href=“styles.css” rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css”>
</head>

<body background=“xbg.gif” leftmargin=“0” topmargin=“50” marginwidth=“0” marginheight=“0”>
<table width=“750” border=“0” cellspacing=“0” cellpadding=“0”>
<tr align=“left” valign=“top”>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>

Thanks for any help!

PS I use this HTML version because that is how the site was created, and all I’m doing is learning to tweak it.

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You can use css to control the background position. With so little code to work on, I use an inline css as an example. The background-position property takes different units, here the position from left and from top is set in pixels:

<body style=" background-image:url(xbg.gif); background-position: 0 50px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"> ...
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Thanks!

I see what you are doing, and will try it.

Polly