On the World of Warcraft forums they have a neat style set up that I'd like to emulate. I didn't know how to do it, so I decided to dig through their stylesheets and grab the pieces of it and put them together to learn how to make a style similar.
When digging through the stylesheets, I found this image. As you can see, it's the background for their forum posts, but it's a fixed size. Here's my question - how are they dynamically creating more length if a user's post is much longer than the picture is?
On a test website I grabbed the same CSS they used for that section. They have it set on overflow:hidden; so that it doesn't keep multiplying the image. Naturally, copying parts of their code gets me this mess on the test website.
It works correctly for smaller posts, since they just have to cut it off, but I'm assuming they have maybe a very thin (set width, perhaps 1 pixel in height) .jpg image that they are multiplying depending on the size of the forum post.
Does anybody know how I might go about doing this?
P.S. Naturally I'm not going to be using their images and such - I'm only copying it for now just to understand how to make my own.
Something like:
CSS:
.post
{
background:#1A0F08 url(http://us.battle.net/wow/static/images/layout/cms/post_bg.jpg) top no-repeat;
}
(the image and the color are those really used, hope they don't sue me for that :) )
is what you're looking for. The background image is positioned on top and stays there, while the rest of the container's height has the same background color that the image fades to (using a gradient). So it's just an illusion of a stretched image, but effectively is just that you don't see the interruption where the image ends