Background image - help please

[clairespawprint]

I was so happy to find this community, because I've been trying to figure out how to add a background image to quite lickable for some time

Comments

[ems]

Take out the page friends stuff and just make it like this:

function custom_styles() {
"""
.body {
background-image: url(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f257/clairespawprint/pawprint.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat;
}
""";
}

That will put a background on all of your pages.

[clairespawprint]

Okay, I tried that. But it still isn't working. Maybe it's something to do with my basic settings or something? I'm truly puzzled.

Thanks for trying, though. :)

[ems]

Have you applied the theme layer by selecting it on your "customize journal" page?

[clairespawprint]

Yes - when I did that, some of my customizations changed (colours, etc), but still no background. Hmm.

[ems]

I'd offer to fiddle around with it for you, but I don't imagine you'd trust anyone with your password (I don't blame you, really) but if you would, I'm happy to do so. I moderate at textsecret, and hopefully everyone there would testify that I'm trustworthy!

Other than that, I'm a wee bit stumped.

You have only got one set of function custom_styles() {
"""
""";
}

etc, right? Make sure the background thing is at the top; possibly you haven't closed a bracket, or something.

[clairespawprint]

Well, I checked all the brackets, and they all look closed. And only one set of function styles, etc. So I'm stumped too. It sounded like it would be "easy" to add a background, but it isn't. I think I might just have to accept my plain background for now... Thanks so much for trying to help!

This is what it looks like now:

[ems]

Take the dot out before the body tag. I am SO sorry, that's totally my fault - I just copied and pasted your page container thing and changed it to body - I should have remembered to delete the dot. I'm soso sorry!

Thank you!!!!!

[clairespawprint]

YAY!

IT WORKS!

Thank you soooo much. :) Now I can tinker. :)

-Claire