Background Image in

I can not find the answer to this question. I have looked everywhere.

I want to have a background image show up in the background of posted messages. What template do I go into and what what coade will go in it?

Is there also a way to have a different background image for different categorys?

[Xanthine]

You have to edit the postbit template.

[attroll]

OK I have gone into my postbit template and tried putting in the following line in several places when the first place I thought it should have gone did not work.

background="{ imagesfolder}/bgimage.gif"

could someone tell me where the correct line is to put this.

[Dean C]

In your 'postbit' template find:

PHP Code:

<td bgcolor="$post[backcolor]" width="100%" valign="top"> 


Change it to:

PHP Code:

<td bgcolor="$post[backcolor]" background="{ imagesfolder}/bgimage.gif" width="100%" valign="top"> 


Make sure you remove the gap between the { and imagesfolder though

- miSt

[WetWired]

You, know you could avoid confusion when explaining these things by simply typing "{imagesfolder}" instead of "{ imagesfolder}" then telling them to remove the space.

Just remember that inserting in the middle of a tag or replacement will prevent its proper parsing. I use this trick all the time when explaining vB codes to people.

[Dean C]

I rest my case

- miSt

[Dean C]

No because when {imagesfolder} is typed on its own it parses.

Let me try that second tip tho:

PHP Code:

<td background="[b]{imagesfolder}[/b]/tablebg.gif"> 


[WetWired]

You failed to understand.
Type this:
{[b][/b]imagesfolder}
to get this:
{imagesfolder}
or this:
[[b][/b]img]http://www.vbulletin.org/layout/header.gif[[b][/b]/img]
to get this:


it should have been obvious it could be made to work by the fact that it worked in my post

BTW, clicking quote would have shown you how I did it.

[Dean C]

I can't see it in your post

It parses when put in a html tag...

Let me try again:

PHP Code:

<td background="{[b][/b]imagesfolder}/tablebg.gif"> 


- miSt

[Dean C]

Thankyou for that - i'll use that when helping from now on (makes life so much easier)

- miSt