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Display background image on every page
Submitted By: Siddharth Kale, Unisys Global Services India Ltd
Posted On: 10/3/2006
Description:
This tip covers editing the correct style elements and their attributes in the OWS and SPS cascading style sheets. These style sheets can be located on each of your front-end web servers in this location drive letter:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\60\template\layouts\1033\styles. Once you locate the files you will need to either use FrontPage 2003 or a compatiable text editor to make changes to the files.
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Make a copy of the original OWS.CSS file
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Open OWS.CSS
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Find .ms-main - This element handles the look and feel for the main portal table.
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Replace current code with code below:
.ms-main
{
background-position: center; background-image: url('/_layouts/images/image.gif'); background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
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Save the file
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Copy your image into the images directory located on the all of the front-end web servers drive letter:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\60\template\images.
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Browse to your site and refresh your page
The "background-repeat: no-repeat" will make the image display only in the center of the page. You can change it's value to have the background repeat or simply remove that attribute to have the image repeat.
