Creating "stretchy" screen width background

**Harryf** · 31 January 2010, 04:52 AM

Hi!

I'm new here and have only recently started using Zara Xtreme 5 Pro.

I'm creating a website and would like the actual contents to be a fixed 850pixels wide and whatever long. The body/background of MY WEB PAGE will be white, but then, as a background to all of this, I'd like there to be a uniform grey colour (colour #e4e4e4) stretching the full screen width of the user's screen.

I simply cannot figure out how to do this without using a template provided. In the template, when I use Dreamweaver to edit the code, I can see that the following code is used to indicate the background colour, but what do I have to do to do it in Xara without having to edit the file in Dreamweaver? The code of a provided template (not my site) shows: <body style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #e4e4e4">. My exported code shows: <body style="">.

What causes it to see something as a stretchy background?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Kindest possible regards

Harry

**steve.ledger** · 31 January 2010, 05:40 AM

Welcome Harry,

Harry the background page bg color is CSS set, so you won't see it in the body tag.

You can change the page bg colour by ctrl+drag'n'drop a colour swatch from the colour line or colour editor.

See Gary's workbook;

► http://www.xaraxone.com/webxealot/wo...workbook_1.htm

**Harryf** · 31 January 2010, 07:34 AM

Hi sledger - and thanks for the Welcome!

It is such a simple solution that I probably just missed it in the "junior" tutorials, or as a friend is used to saying "I was not paying attention in class...".

Thank you very much! It works like a charm (as if you did not know - hehe!

Have a great day!

h

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