CSS ON GAMEPAGES

You don't have to code to learn CSS. All it does is declare how html tags should be formatted - it's almost like advanced bb tags. You can't even declare variables or add two numbers together with it.

Whenever you have like 30 minutes to spare watch this video on html/css basics. He drags ass sometimes, but just stick to it. Afterward you'll understand what the curly braces and semi-colons mean and you can basically just read 80% of CSS style declarations like it's in plain English. It won't seem remotely daunting to you then. It's more like formatting a word document than writing an RGSS script. It just appears to be more confusing than it actually is at first. Video will get you up to snuff.

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@WolfCoder - You should check out the firebug plugin if you use Firefox, it lets you temporarily edit the CSS right on the site itself. You also can "inspect" elements on a page and it'll automatically highlight the tag and list the entire cascade for that element so you can see things being overwritten and all that. Works really well for javascript debugging too if you ever find yourself doing that.

I don't think we disagree - you just misunderstood what I was saying or perhaps I wasn't clear.

CSS is certainly code, I just mean you don't have to know how to program in order to use it. That is what he is assuming. He's not a programmer, and it's well known he has no desire in becoming one. Curly braces and things probably look like Hieroglyphics to him and he falsely assumes he has to learn low level OOP just to tweak his profile.

Maybe saying you don't have to script to understand and use CSS is better word choice. He's thinking it's like RGSS, when it's actually below Events in learning curve. It's primarily used by designers, not programmers in the web development industry. It's just decorating html tags.

http://www.w3schools.com/css/

CSS for dummies

#body {
background: #000000 url("backgroundimageurlhere") top center !important; }


That should do what you want

Edit: If you want the image to stay "fixed" (not scroll with the page) then add "fixed" after "center." If you don't want the background to tile-repeat, then also add "no-repeat."

@argument coding and CSS: CSS is rather a scripting language, you work with a script not a code. A code implies there are abstractions to the way things are presented, while a script is more or less plain English.

(this is my opinion, take it or leave it, JavaScript is not necessarily a scripting language in my book, and RGSS is more of a coding language).