CSS Table th background

[Aaron]

I want a background to go across my whole header, but there are multiple th's. I noticed there's a thead, is there any way I can make an image in the thead? The height is set right for the image, but the width is gonna be 100% of the width of the header (it will change)

[Kyle]

I gotta say, the site's looking good so far.

But I'm not sure excatly what you are trying to do. Are you trying to change the background in your header area? Like where?

[simpilot]

Use colspan to span all the columns you want it to cover in the table.

<th colspan="HOWMANY"><img src="my image link" alt="TEXT DESCRIPTION" /></th>

or if you are doing it in CSS assign a class to it and use the background function

<th class="background" colspan="HOWMANY"><th>

css

th.background  {
 background: #000;
 height: 100px;
etc....
}

[Aaron]

That shifts all the other <th>'s over. I need it specifically for my pilot list. See it at: http://www.canforce.org/index.php/pilots

[Strider]

simpilot, that will just repeat the image accross all <th>'s. You can only really put a solid color as a bg in a certain area of a table. Unless you create an image that is the exact width of your table, and align it with the top of the table, and make the bottom part of the image the same color as the bg of the page, or what ever is the color of the bg of the table. You would have to set that to the background of the entire table, not just the <th>'s

[Aaron]

Ah, that sucks just a bit... I guest for the ones with multiple th's I'll just put it a background