<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en-US"> <head> <title>Table background tests</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"> html, body { margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; font-size: 16px; } body { padding: 15px; } /* table { margin: 0px 3px 2px 4px; border-width: 4px 2px 8px 6px; height is 97px: (2px of border outside height) extra border width for top row: 0 cell * 5: == 19px * 5 == 95px border-top: 2px; padding-top: 1px; height: 10px; padding-bottom: 4px; border-bottom: 2px; extra border width for top row: 2px (4px of border outside height) width is 287px: (3px of border outside width) extra border width for left column: 2px cell * 5: == 57px * 5 == 285px border-left: 1px; padding-left: 3px; width: 50px; padding-right: 2px; border-right: 1px; (1px of border outside width) */ div { width: 287px; height: 19px; margin: 40px 4px 86px 7px; } div.color { background-color: aqua; } div.imagetl, div.imagebr { background-image: url(repeatable-diagonal-gradient-with-ticks.png); } div.imagetl { background-position: 0 0; } div.imagebr { background-position: 287px 19px; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="color"></div> <div class="imagetl"></div> <div class="imagebr"></div> </body> </html>