How do I stop the background image tiling?
stick it in your head
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-image : url(thebackground.jpg);
background-repeat : no-repeat;
}
</style>
How does one control how many horizontal and/or vertical repetitions of the image appear?
You don't. however to only repeat horizontally: background-repeat : repeat-x; or vertically: background-repeat : repeat-y;
Centering a background image
stick it in your head:
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-image : url(thebackground.jpg);
background-repeat : no-repeat;
background-position : 50% 50%;
}
</style>
works with Internet Explorer, Netscape 6, Opera 5 and Mozilla. Netscape 4.x doesnt know what to do with it
To fix the background add in: background-attachment: fixed;