When you create a webpage with Webtv's Pagebuilder, Webtv automatically adds a body tag which determines the colors and background image of your webpage.
Due to the upgrades/updates (2.6.1--June 2001 & 2.7--October 2001), Webtv is only "recognizing" the first body tag that it automatically adds to every webpage; Webtv is now ignoring the other body tag added by the user to change the webpage background image or bgcolor.
The advantage of using any of the "advanced editor" methods is that they "negate" the opening body tag that Webtv automatically adds to every webpage and enables you to use your own webpage body tag for bgcolor or background image, and text & link & vlink & alink colors as desired.
Any page style can be selected to be used with the "advanced editor" methods and multiple "add an item"--"text" or "picture" areas can be used. See alignment notes below if more than one "add an item" area is used.
NOTE: The disappearing background problem is not limited to just the Webtv PageBuilder webpages; if you improperly use 2 body tags on a geocities, tripod, angelfire, etc webpage, 2.6 and 2.7 viewers will only "see" the first body tag that is coded into the page, no matter what upgrade version YOU are on.
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| h17: PB Breakthrough 1/26/2000 | Paul Dutton: The Defeat Of wtv PB v 1.1 | Beth Candy: Advanced Html Editor | williamandx: background bgcolor | |||
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| JaxRed: noscript tags | Angela's Example | Barb from Maine: the FIX | ctpaso & Bunny's Way | |||
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| jaxred <script> /* | knine <script> /* | rtcamm comment-script | knine script-comment | |||
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| Kid-Kode: javascript codes | williamandx: one table backgrounds | greenmonk: plain PB backgrounds | cwdjrx: javascript with div tags | |||
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of the various "advanced editor methods.
The two demos below use comment tags
( <!--//> and </--> )
(based on Paul Dutton's method)
Changing the background image of the webpage
Changing the bgcolor of the webpage
( <!--//> and </--> )
(based on Paul Dutton's method)
Changing the background image of the webpage
Changing the bgcolor of the webpage
NOTE: Any page style can be selected when using an "advanced editor" method. If you include all of the content of your webpage in the same "add an item"--"text" area that the "advanced editor" codes are used, then standard alignment codes can be used to align text, images, tables, etc.
But the content of the page does not have to be contained entirely in the first "add an item"--"text" area that is used for the "advanced editor" codes. Additional "add an item" areas can be used to add content to your webpage.
- If you later use the "add an item"--"picture"--"your scrapbook" method to add images directly to your webpage, the page style selected will determine the alignment of images and image-related-text that you add to the page.
Some page styles align images to the center of the page, while others alternate the alignment of the images to the right and left sides of the webpage.
Click here for a list of the page style automatic image alignments.
- If you later use additional "add an item"--"text" areas to add content to your webpage, the page style selected will determine the alignment of the content.
Some page styles align text, etc., to the center of the page, while others align it to the left of the page.
Click here for codes to use for alignment if extra/additional "add an item"--"text" areas are used.
Click here for more detailed information concerning alignment with extra/additional "add an item"--"text" areas.
The "advanced editor" method blocks out and negates the first body tag that Webtv automatically adds to every page made-----this allows you to use another body tag for bgcolor or a background image (including solid colored gifs or other images).
This is what the beginning of a page looks like when one of the "advanced editor" methods is used:
Codes that are automatically added by Webtv are in yellow.
<html>
<head>
<META NAME="generator" CONTENT="WebTV Page Builder v1.1">
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Various Advanced Editor methods to change the bgcolor, background image, text & link & vlink & alink colors.">
<title>ae_methods
( The "advanced editor" method/code below blocks out the first body tag automatically added by Webtv. )
</title><!--//>
Codes that are automatically added by Webtv are in yellow. The codes below are now blocked out and not enacted upon or "seen".
</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="silver" text="black" link="blue" alink="red" vlink="#ff00ff">
<P>
<TABLE>
<TR><TD>
<P ALIGN=left>
</--> ( This user-added code ends the "advanced editor" method effects. )
( The body tag below (added by the user) is the only one "seen" and enacted upon by browsers. )
<add meta tags here, if desired></head><body background="url of image" text="#f5deb3" link="#ffff00" vlink="#ff4500" alink="#800000" bgcolor="#000000">
Rest of webpage here
Webtv automatically adds the following closing tags to every webpage:
</body></html>