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div with absolute position behind the normal flow

i am trying to get a div to be my background and am using absolute positioning to achieve it. everything works fine except for the fact that it appears above anything in the normal flow and fiddling with z-indexes does absolutely nothing. <div id="blind"> <div id="blindbackground"></div> <div id="blindcontainer"><div class="loader"><im...

Styling a list as tabs with a background overflowing into content

I couldn't think of any better way to name this question, but I'll explain. I have a mediawiki website with a background pattern (like parchment) behind the articles. At the top of each article I want to have tabs like wikipedia does (with page | talk | edit etc links). The problem is, the tabs should seamlessly fit with the article's...

Image Pixels Problem in Android?

When I am using the background attribute for a Layout, the Pixels of the background image looks like blurry. I think there must be a resolution Problem. for example in Api Demos there is a module in this path Graphics/BitmapsPixels. My background image is looks like a third image. i would need to show my background image like the second ...

Background image flickering when mouseover - IE.

Hello everyone, I have a contact form and I added an image as a background. The background image is flickering when I move the mouse over the fields in IE(6,7,8). If I remove the contact form (made with divs) everything is fine. I tried to build the form with table and I have the same problem. Any solution? Every idea is welcomed! ...

Starting an Intent to Launch an app to Background in Android

Hi all, I'm using Wikitude API 1.1 as an AR viewer in my application. The problem with Wikitude, if I haven't launched the actual Wikitude application since the phone's bootup, I will get a NullPointerException everytime I start my own application. So I figure if I can start my app first and them check if Wikitude is installed and or r...

How to set background image for Android button but keep the gray button?

I need to set a background image for an android button (text button), but I want to keep the gray button. When i use the setBackgroundResource() it has the image in place of the gray button. How can I keep the gray button? I tried using setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds, but the image only takes up part of the button, even when ...

Set background of UITableview in interface builder?

In iPhone I need to set the background view of a UITableview. From 3.2 SDK I can in code use something like: [self.tableView setBackgroundView:[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"mycustombackground.png"]]]; But how can I do the same in interface builder? It would be great if I could just set the background view di...

CSS3 gradient background set on body doesn't stretch but instead repeats?

ok say the content inside the <body> totals 300px high. If I set the background of my <body> using -webkit-gradient or -moz-linear-gradient Then I maximize my window (or just make it taller than 300px) the gradient will be exactly 300px tall (the height of the content) and just repeat to fill the rest of the window. I am assuming this...

Are background threads a bad idea? Why?

So I've been told what I'm doing here is wrong, but I'm not sure why. I have a webpage that imports a CSV file with document numbers to perform an expensive operation on. I've put the expensive operation into a background thread to prevent it from blocking the application. Here's what I have in a nutshell. protected void ButtonUpload...

How to delay putting process in background until after it is ready to serve, in shell

I have two processes: a server that should be run in background, but starts serving requests after a delay, and a client that should be started when server is ready. The server prints line containg "Acceptin connections" to its stderr when ready (server stderr is redirected to a file when running it in background). How to delay putting...

Changing background image of a Drupal page based on user's selection...?

Hi I'm trying to give my users the functionality to change what the background image used on a page is. The list of background images will be a small number that won't really change. I thought I could add a few Taxonomy terms...one for each background type...then apply a class to the body tag when the page is viewed. Does this sound ...

custom grid style in silverlight 4

Hello, I want to set background of a grid using a style. I style I'm setting the Background Property of the grid. But I have a border filled with LinearGradientFill and a Path which also has LinearGradientFill in it. But I'm not able to combine both. Below is sample code. I want to create it as a style. <Grid> <Border BorderBrush="B...

is background audio playing enabled in iPhone?

I was able to play the audio in background of the application in iPhone. However I would like to know if there is any service that enables the playback of audio after the user exits the application? I know that SDK 4.0 promises multitasking and background processes of the application. But i would like to know if this is enabled for audio...

Reset TextBox.Background to default in WPF so it still gets updated when system settings change

I have a TextBox that I wish to reset its Background property to its default value after changing it to a different colour. I have tried setting it to SystemColors.WindowBrush, but then, if the Display Settings are updated to change this value, it doesn't get dynamically reflected in the TextBox (it does normally if TextBox.Background h...

How to create gradient background with CSS in Firefox < 3.6?

hi! :) anyone know if is possible to reproduce this effect background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #666666, #000000); background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear,left bottom,left top,color-stop(0, #000000),color-stop(1, #666666)); also on ff < 3.6? im tryin' to generate a gradient background without images! thanks a lot in advance ...

How to avoid zombie processes after executing them in background

Hi! we are programming a bash like shell in C but we have problems with the background processes. The thing is that the father waits for the children process when there is no &, we have made a signal_handler for SIGCHLD which have a wait inside. The main problem that we want to avoid is: the signal_handler executes always (with backgro...

Add a background image to tables in a navigation view in a tabbed application

Hi people, I have a tabbed application which then has a navigation controller. In each the navigation controller I an a table View Controller which obviously contains a table. I push a new table view controller from this one. I want to put a background to the table but can only add an image infront of the table. I think this may be bec...

simulate to change the background color when click the link

I have the following HTML and the java script below to simulate the background color change when the link block is clicked, but it doesn't seem to work. Any reason why? If I have only the onmousedown event handled, the background color will be changed to blue for sure. But if both onmousedown and onmouseup are handled, nothing would cha...

change the url background color (when get tapped) from gray to others

It could be a HTML question as well... I have a UIWebView with a page (from the hand made html string) loaded. For the url link on the page, if you tap on it, it has gray as background, which I think is the default behavior on iPhone. Is there a way to programmingly (thru javascript) change that to be other colors, say, blue? It doesn...

urllib alternative for iPhone

hi, I am trying to create an iPhone application which in some point connects to the internet, fills an on-line form, fetches the resulting website, parses it and returns a string to the user. I want all this process to happen in the background. I know how to do this kind of things with python and urllib but in objc I can't find an altern...