How do I do this? 'Expanding' long elements?

How to describe this, but is is basic I think: I am working on a website that wil have different pages with different lenghts. On the left and right side I would like a element hat grows with the page - depending on the amount of text. It must be basic, however, I have never done this before. Have a look at www.youngfocus.nl.test and click on one of the three links inder the pictures (its is in Dutch ;-). You’ll see yellow elements on the left and right which I would like to see ‘grow’ as the text expands.

Thanks!

Paul


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Hi Paul
This can be done with a background image that is set to tile vertically

What you create in Photoshop or similar is a graphic file the width of your page with a section of yellow 150px wide then a space of 675px followed by another 150px yellow. (Approx sizes measured from your page - adjust to suit.)

Make this a gif file approx 20px high - there is an optimum height for this that was discussed recently but I cant remember exactly what it was.

In the inspector for your page, with nothing selected, click on the paintbrush icon and choose the file you made in Pshop under Image: select

Only tile this image vertically and horizontally center and uncheck scroll

You will of course have to remove the existing yellow striped sections from your page.

David


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Paul,
I see that you use all graphic text on your site, this will be a problem with Google etc reading the content of the site

On the news page you use some html text but it expands over your footer - The pages needs a bit of flexibility to achieve what you’re after. It is much better explained in Dan’s tutorial using FW box model.

http://danjasker.blogspot.com/2008/07/fw5-understanding-box-model.html

Cheers
Marcel


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Paul, I apologize, please ignore my waffle - I looked at the old site and not your new test site

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Hi Marcel. Yes, indeed, the old website doesn’t have much html. Although it will be better on the new one, I still would like to see the teaching.

Thanks Dave. Yes… see… it is basic… indeed, that would do the trick. Since it doesn’t have a whole page background design I didn’t think of just leaving it white in between. It is so simple sometimes… :wink:


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