184034 - td css background-image property ignored

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[ron]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0

<td style='background-image:url(someurl)'>
does not work

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.use the background property on a td with a url pointing to an image
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
the browser fails to render the image, however, if you place the cursor where
the image is suppose to be and right-click, it knows the image is there, and you
can view the image, it just isn't rendered on the page

Expected Results:  
it should have rendered the image - it knows it's there

accordin to http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_background-image.asp the
background-image property is not supported by NS 4.0 ... but hey, this is 7.0,
isn't it about time .....

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

->Style

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The site has:

  style='background-image:url(/golf/proto/plumcreek/images/nav_bkgnd.jpg);
         background-repeat:no-repeat; background-attachment:fixed;
         background-position:top right'

(please do paste all the relevant code).  The important part is
"background-attachment: fixed" (which is ignored by IE).  That CSS says to put
the background at the top-right of the _viewport_ and paint it anywhere where it
intersects the table cell.  Oh, and not to tile.  The rendering is correct given
that CSS.

Comment 3

[Eric A. Meyer (dead account)]

Verified.