Need graphic to stretch the width of a cell

[Guest]

I want to embed a graphic as a background picture of a cell but since the
grpahic is not the same size as the cell it tiles. How can I have the
graphic stretch to fill the size of the cell.

Thanks

 

[David Berry]

The easiest way is to resize the graphic to the size of the cell using a
image editing program. Then re-import it into your site

 

[Murray]

How do you know the size of the cell?

The real answer is that you just cannot do this.

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

You can't. There's nothing in HTML or CSS that will enable an image to
stretch as a function of the width of another item, such as a table cell.
Images need to be fixed sizes in terms of pixels.

 

[Larry]

See the following url as an example of how an image can stretch according to
cell size:
http://www.bed-and-breakfast-travel.com/webservices/templates.htm#freebie
It works fine.
Larry

 

[Murray]

Actually, it doesn't. Those are not stretching images. They are tiling
images. There's a big difference in an image that repeats to fill its
available space, and one that stretches to fill the available space. The
former is the default behavior. The latter is a fib.

 

[Murray]

On careful look, I see that there are neither stretching nor tiling images
there. There are static corner images, and stretching table cells with
colored background....