45138 - <body bgproperties=fixed> is ignored

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 7474

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[MatthiasMann]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m16) Gecko/20000613
BuildID:    2000061311

the <body background=... bgproperties=fixed> is ignored. It is not html-
standard, but InternetExplorer standard since version 2.0. Many pages uses this
feature. It would be better, if this feature is supported by mozilla too.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
open a page with <body .... bgproperties=fixed> :-)

Actual Results:  The Background is not fixed

Expected Results:  The background schould not scroll with the text (watermark)

Internet explorer supportes this feature since version 2.0

<html>
<body background="bg.gif" bgproperties=fixed>
<p>
Lots of text lines
Lots of text lines
Lots of text lines
</p>
</body>
</html>

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

reporter please specify a dtd file that defines what this tag does. Is this part
of HTML 4.0  I don't see it there.

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

This is INVALID because "bgproperties=fixed" is an IE non-standard extension. 

The same behaviour can be achieved using the 'background' property of CSS1, 
which has been a W3C recommendation since 1996.

For example:

   body { background: black url(image.png) fixed center center no-repeat; }

See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/ for more details.

Comment 3

[Peter "jag" Annema]

I agree. No need to add support for non-standard IE stuff when there's a correct 
solution (CSS) available.

Comment 4

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 266565 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7474 ***