IE expression and background-image

[Ryan Dahl]

Hi,

help needed :-)

I'm generating one or more tables on a web-page (via ASP).
If a table is above 200 pixels in height a background-logo should be
displayed. The height is required to avoid cropping the logo.

I've tried using something like this:

<style>

table.info
{
background-image: expression(this.height > 200 ? "url('img/logo.gif')"
: "none");
}
</style>

....but Internet Explorer seems to either ignore it, mess up existing
formatting or throw an exception.

BTW - this is for an intranet only - so it can be IE-specific.

Thanks in advance.

Ryan

[Jim Moe]

Ryan Dahl wrote:

I've tried using something like this:
<style>
table.info
{
background-image: expression(this.height > 200 ? "url('img/logo.gif')"
: "none");
}
</style>

...but Internet Explorer seems to either ignore it, mess up existing
formatting or throw an exception.

It is completely invalid CSS.

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[Ryan Dahl]

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:57:04 -0700, Jim Moe
<jm***************@sohnen-moe.com> wrote:

Ryan Dahl wrote:

I've tried using something like this:
<style>
table.info
{
background-image: expression(this.height > 200 ? "url('img/logo.gif')"
: "none");
}
</style>

...but Internet Explorer seems to either ignore it, mess up existing
formatting or throw an exception.

It is completely invalid CSS.

You're not really being helpful. You're also wrong about it being
'completely invalid CSS' since the reference is Internet Explorer as
pointed out.

Regards
Ryan

[Ryan Dahl]

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:46:11 +0100, Ryan Dahl
<ju***********@hotmail.com> wrote:

Problem solved....

FYI I'm using these lines in my css:

background-image: URL('logo.gif');
background-image: expression( this.clientHeight < 200 ? "none":"");

Regards
Ryan

[Jim Moe]

Ryan Dahl wrote:

It is completely invalid CSS.

You're not really being helpful. You're also wrong about it being
'completely invalid CSS' since the reference is Internet Explorer as
pointed out.

It is invalid CSS. There is no such programming capability in the CSS
specification.
Since this was an IE-specific question, asking in an IE-specific ng
would have been more productive.

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