ARGH!!! Help Please...

[Katyusha]

I'm having problems getting a background onto my MySpace page. It will load briefly and then be covered up by gray. I've had this problem regardless the background that I use, whether it's uploaded from my computer or one of the premade images on those editing sites (I've tried Pimp-My-Profile and My Wacko Space)...it still gets covered up by gray. The text, borders, contact table, fonts, all of those show up fine, but the background...

::banging head on keyboard::

A couple of people have told me it's a coding error but can't tell me where and a couple of others have told me that the code is fine and it's a problem with either MySpace or with the editor sites. If the latter is true, then why am I the ONLY person who's having this problem?

Anyway, if you need to see for yourself what it does, go to http://myspace.com/finitia If anybody else has had this problem and solved it, please tell me what you did. Thanks.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

KATYUSHA

This is a dum ass guess, but I'm wondering if you have a POP-UP blocker that's defeating the background transfer. My POP-UP blocker does it, but not on MySpace. I suspect some websites trigger the block.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I'm looking at it in firefox, and I'm seeing-- almost nothing. Where are you putting your override code?

I HATE myspace! I have it but I almost never go to it...

 

[Katyusha]

KATYUSHA

This is a dum ass guess, but I'm wondering if you have a POP-UP blocker that's defeating the background transfer. My POP-UP blocker does it, but not on MySpace. I suspect some websites trigger the block.

I wish it was that simple. I've played with my pop-up blockers several times in regards to this issue and nothing changes. I think it's a problem with the code somewhere...but damned if I can figure out where. A couple of people have told me there's nothing wrong with the code and that there might be a conflict somewhere between the layout code and something else, but I'm not so literate that I'll be able to figure it out.

 

[Katyusha]

I'm looking at it in firefox, and I'm seeing-- almost nothing. Where are you putting your override code?

I HATE myspace! I have it but I almost never go to it...

Into the "About Me" section, where the editing sites say it's supposed to go. What means "almost nothing?"

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

KATYUSHA

When I created my recent MySpace page I had to 're-do' the background url in the editor a few times before it appeared on my page.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Into the "About Me" section, where the editing sites say it's supposed to go. What means "almost nothing?"

Well, the first time I looked, I saw your profile and all the stuff on the left, but no blog or any of the right-hand column.

Now I see them.

Ans, I can see your background as your page loads, but once it's fully loaded, your background image disappears...

 

[Stella_Omega]

Try this; look in your css for this;
background-image:none;
and delete it . See if that's it... If it isn't, though, be ready to put it back!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

STELLA on some of the editors you can "hide" various features on the page. I wonder if Katyusha's editor has that option for the background, and if she activated it.

I just noticed that my page editor stored its code within the PEOPLE I'D LIKE TO MEET SECTION.

 

[Stella_Omega]

James, I have that feature myself! And thank gawd for it, too. But you might be right. It would be easy and clever enough to make the script wrapper wrap around the entire page...

But, it might be faulty css.
I see this line;
body, .bodyContent {

I think there should be a dot before body, like so;
.body, .bodyContent {

try changing that...

(I dicked with my oen prifile using firefox on a mac. Now I'll probably have to go to the Old man's wndows and use ME to fix it... have I mentioned that I hate myspace?

 

[Frank Noir]

I'm having problems getting a background onto my MySpace page. It will load briefly and then be covered up by gray. I've had this problem regardless the background that I use, whether it's uploaded from my computer or one of the premade images on those editing sites (I've tried Pimp-My-Profile and My Wacko Space)...it still gets covered up by gray. The text, borders, contact table, fonts, all of those show up fine, but the background...

::banging head on keyboard::

A couple of people have told me it's a coding error but can't tell me where and a couple of others have told me that the code is fine and it's a problem with either MySpace or with the editor sites. If the latter is true, then why am I the ONLY person who's having this problem?

Anyway, if you need to see for yourself what it does, go to http://myspace.com/finitia If anybody else has had this problem and solved it, please tell me what you did. Thanks.

Hmmm, that is strange.
The link to your background-image is correct (if I copy the url I see it in my browser)
But there is a double semicolon after table table table table { width:100%;;
That may confuse some browsers.
Also, I'm not sure that "background-position:Center Center;" is valid - try losing one of the "Centers" and see if that helps.
I'm afraid Stella's suggestion about putting a dot in front of .body won't do any good - dots are for your own declared classes, but body is a standard HTML tag.
PM me if none of this works and I'll have another go.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Hmmm, that is strange.
The link to your background-image is correct (if I copy the url I see it in my browser)
But there is a double semicolon after table table table table { width:100%;;
That may confuse some browsers.
Also, I'm not sure that "background-position:Center Center;" is valid - try losing one of the "Centers" and see if that helps.
I'm afraid Stella's suggestion about putting a dot in front of .body won't do any good - dots are for your own declared classes, but body is a standard HTML tag.
PM me if none of this works and I'll have another go.

After you fix hers-- will you fix mine?

 

[Katyusha]

Ans, I can see your background as your page loads, but once it's fully loaded, your background image disappears...

Yeah. I tried deleting everything off the profile, even my pics and the comments that people left, and just rebuilding it fresh. That didn't work either...although someone just told me that my blog shows up as Wingdings and suggested that I delete that and see if it works.

Something's definitely wrong somewhere and it's frustrating me.

 

[Katyusha]

Try this; look in your css for this;
background-image:none;
and delete it . See if that's it... If it isn't, though, be ready to put it back!

Yeah...don't see that in the code...

Edit: Nevermind, I see it...but removing it didn't do anything.

 

[Katyusha]

Thanks...

...for all the suggestions so far. I'm open to trying anything.

 

[rgraham666]

...for all the suggestions so far. I'm open to trying anything.

That's a dangerous thing to say around here.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Yeah...don't see that in the code...

.pimp_my_profile { Generated at Pimp My Profile www.pimp-my-profile.com }
table, tr, td {
background-color:transparent;
border:none;
border-width:0px;
}

table table table {
width:100%; max-width: 600px; } table table table table { width:100%;;
}

body, .bodyContent {
background-image:url(http://img7.pimp-my-profile.com/i92/5/12/9/f_b954e171b397.jpg);
background-position:Center Center;
background-attachment:fixed;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
border-width:0px;
border-style:Solid;
}

table table {
border:0px;
}

table table table table {
border:0px;
background-image:none;
background-color:transparent;
}

The pink bits could probably be deleted; the red bits, I'm almost positive should be deleted...

I've never seen elements like "table table table table" before!
And, looking at your page I can't see them called anywhere. But I do see calls like "table1" and "table2" and those elements are not listed in your css.

I have a feeling bonfils knows a shitload more than me, but if you are adventurous, try replacing all of those repeated tables with "table#" where the # is the number of times table was repeated.

Otherwise, I think the generator is screwy!

 

[Katyusha]

That's a dangerous thing to say around here.

I thought of that after I posted...and decided to leave it as it was.