I am soooooo happy. Now i have my background working properly. I can now type text, display images, whatever but it all has to be in this table cell. I ma so glad i figured this out. I was getting so complicated when all i had to do was add a simple VALIGN code. With the "background" in one of the table cells instead of in the body tag it is not tiled. EVERYTHING IS WORKING JUST DANDY!