Comments on: Random CSS Thought: Background-z-index

By: Pierre "Greywacke" du Toit

Pierre "Greywacke" du Toit — Sun, 01 May 2011 11:58:39 +0000

PPS: i still like this idea, it can greatly decrease the amount of code required when developing web pages, and for clients that have a poor connection to load.

By: Pierre "Greywacke" du Toit

Pierre "Greywacke" du Toit — Sun, 01 May 2011 11:53:27 +0000

hi again, i have resolved my issue. they can simply be resolved by stacking various divs over each other, absolutely or relatively – if you do not want to use css 3 multiple backgrounds ;)
hope this helps someone.

By: Pierre "Greywacke" du Toit

Pierre "Greywacke" du Toit — Sun, 01 May 2011 10:47:48 +0000

I’m a freelance web developer. In a project I work on for my biggest client, I currently require to have two anchors (with id larr and rarr for left arrow and right arrow – to scroll the menu bar). now the script is all finished and working perfectly, only problem is to specify a background image for these links in CSS, that floats above the menu bar ul object! the li objects have background color properties – but regardless of the z-index of the anchors and ul or its scrolling span within the container div – it does not display the absolute positioned anchors’ background even in the z-index defined for them!
it would be lovely if even that was made possible. But I must say, I like your idea a lot – it could quite possibly be the solution to my problem as well!

By: josh

josh — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:58:10 +0000

As long as you’re wishing for things that don’t exist in all current browsers, why not just use css rounded corners?

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By: James John Malcolm (AkaXakA)

James John Malcolm (AkaXakA) — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:37:56 +0000

CSS 3 *should* have multiple backgrounds, where the z-index of the background is governed by the order of the rules in the css.

Myself I’d rather like to see background:url(“../images/nav.png”) no-repeat 0 0 1z; happening, where 1z refers to the first place in the z-index of the document. This absolute scale would give control to place background images above the content, even more than your relative scale.

By: Prashant

Prashant — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:37:21 +0000

Seems like a very interesting concept.

Maybe you should rename this blog to “What CSS is Lacking”, you always come up with such interesting ideas and concepts. Keep up the quality posts!

By: Biscuitrat (Ranjani)

Biscuitrat (Ranjani) — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:20:35 +0000

1 what though? Pixel? Layer? I can definitely see the possibility for usage, but not the implementation. Of course, if CSS standardized a certain way to display backgrounds without us having to abuse margin, padding, height, and width attributes to get it to display, that would be cool too!

Nice write-up, and again, my mind is creatively depleted when it comes to writing about CSS :O