mike wrote:
Grant Wagner <gw*****@agricoreunited.com> wrote in message news:<3F***************@agricoreunited.com>... erik wrote:
Is it posssible to inherit the previous pages (parent pages)
background image? Is there a script out there I could look at? Thanks
The browser has no way of knowing what the background image of the
previous page was. If you want to use the same background image, you'll
have to set a cookie with the background image name and read it on each
page, or pass the image name around on the URL.
Not entirly true. I've got what the OP dscribes to work without
cookies or passing in the url.
I've only tested it in mozilla 1.4 and I wouldn't like to comment on
the 'goodness' of the method though :)
I found part of the answer here -
http://www.codebelly.com/javascript/...agechange.html
If you use the [depricated] background attribute of the body tag to
specify the image you can change/reference it with javascript. (I
can't get it to work with body background images defined with css
though.)
In the opened window call the following line of javascript with an
onload on the body tag
document.body.background=opener.document.body.back ground
mike.
What you have done is open a new window and accessed the opener's background attribute. This is "inheriting"
the background image from a previous page. If that is what what the OP meant by "parent" page then sure, he
could jury rig the setup like this:
In Internet Explorer use:
<style type="text/css">
body { background-image:URL("3dblocks.gif"); }
</style>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var w = window.open('about
:blank');
w.document.body.style.backgroundImage = document.body.currentStyle.backgroundImage;
</script>
And in Mozilla you would use:
w.document.body.style.backgroundImage = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(document.bod y,
"").backgroundImage;
Note that on a web site, both pages would have to come from the same domain for this to work, you can't
specify the backgroundImage for a page loaded in a new window which isn't from your domain.
Of course, the standard way to handle this is define the background image in one place, then specify:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/path/to/file.css" />
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