Select Background Image Dialog Box

This dialog box allows you to choose an image to display or tile in the background of your Web page. You can either type in the image path in the URL field, or click the ellipse (...) button and navigate to the file's location. To access this dialog box, select Style Builder from the Style menu, choose Background in the left-hand pane, and click the ellipse (...) button adjacent to the Image field.

Projects

Select a project whose Web pages or other files will use this background image.

Contents of Folder

Select a project folder whose Web pages or other files will use this background image.

Files of type

Select, by file extension, the files that will use this background image.

URL type

URLs entered in this field can be absolute or relative. Absolute URLs include the full path to the image file, for example

file://server/art/recent/MyHouse.gif

Relative URLs express the location of the image file in relation to the location of the calling document, for example

../Img/MyHouse.gif

URL

The URL value is derived automatically from your choices in the previous fields. Click the browse (...) button to select a background image; its URL will appear in this field. You can also enter the path to the image manually.

Parameters

If the URL for the background image contains a search component to be passed to a server using GET statement syntax, enter the query string for the statement in this field. The query component will be separated from the URL by a question mark (?) yielding a string of the following form:

http://ourServer/myFolder/myPage.htm?getsomething%20value

URL preview

Refer to this window to ensure that the URL and other values entered in the fields above are correct, and that the Web page is displaying correctly.