Hi;
I was a member of this list about ten years ago (under the email address
michael_mabe...@yahoo.ca), while I was trying to teach myself CSS (via
Eric Meyer’s text) and HTML. Thanks to participants in this list
(especially Gunlaug Sørtun [“Georg”], Philippe Wittenbergh, and
others), I was eventually able to create a large website for myself
(www.thinkingmusic.ca). My website has been extremely valuable to me,
as it allows me to practice my profession (teaching music
theory/composition to a few students in different parts of the world),
and I’m very grateful to those who helped me along the way!
My problem: after many years of flawless performance, two pages in my
website are suddenly not appearing completely as they should. The defect
is slight -- an x-repeated gif, that colours 2/3 of the <body> in a
charcoal colour – is not appearing at all, so that that part of the
<body> is white, rather than charcoal. Here is the relevant CSS:
body
{
position: relative;
background: url(../../images/bodyimage2.gif) repeat-x;
}
The “bodyimage2.gif” is stored in the <images> folder of the parent
(thinkingmusic.ca/index) directory.
Here are some pages within my website in which the above-mentioned
“charcoal” backgrounds still appear as they should:
http://www.thinkingmusic.ca/analyses/index.html
http://www.thinkingmusic.ca/analyses/coltrane/index.html
http://www.thinkingmusic.ca/thinkingharmony/commontonemodulation/index.html
http://www.thinkingmusic.ca/thinkingharmony/figuredbass/index.html
and here are the two that are no longer showing that background – at
least, when using Chrome on a Windows desktop computer:
http://www.thinkingmusic.ca/analyses/grissett/index.html
http://www.thinkingmusic.ca/thinkingharmony/justfriends/index.html
But here are some strange phenomena:
- it only occurs in two of the many pages in which I used the identical
CSS technique
- it only occurs when using Chrome on Windows desktop computers: it
occurs on my Windows 7 desktop, and on a friend’s Windows 10 desktop.
- it does not occur when using Internet Exporer on the same desktop computer
- It does not occur when using Chrome on an Android tablet.
- Others, who have tried the pages on other computers (not necessarily
using Chrome), report that this problem does not occur for them.
Because this is happening on another’s Windows computer, and only when
using Chrome, it makes me wonder whether Chrome has recently updated
itself in a way that might be rendering my CSS or HTML invalid. But
even this wouldn’t explain why only some pages – pages that use the
identical CSS techniques and structures – have this problem, while
others do not.
So far, none of the web designers and computer repair people I know
have been able to figure out what’s happening.
Any ideas?
BTW: as you can probably tell, I am not a developer – just a
self-taught beginner.
Thanks, in advance, for anything you’d care to share!
Michael
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