Images in category strips, different for each category.
 

What's the cleanest way to go about doing this? I'm sure I can accomplish it using a few conditionals in the actual background img call for the category strip itself, but that seems like a bit of a pain.

If someone's done this (and I've seen plenty that have) a better way, I'd love to know what it is. :)

Bump because I'm going to try and do this the hard way this weekend. :)

try inline CSS

eg. background-image: url(images/gradient_tcat$foruminfo[forumid].gif)

Dude you rock.

That CSS statement only applies to category strips, right? I notice that same image appears (for example) on my memberinfo tabs, but I can't recall if it's a manual edit I made myself that adds them there.

you would have to manually add that to the "forumhome_" nopost template (this would overide any embedded or external CSS)

you can then create your own gradients per forumid

gradient_tcat$foruminfo[forumid].gif
gradient_tcat34.gif
gradient_tcat5.gif

you would of course have to create a conditional if you only want the gradient to change only for a few places