Did you try it like this?

<div style="background-color:#000000; background-image:url(whatever.gif);
background-repeat:repeat-y;">

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"NickTheNameless" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> ok i have a div with css styling using the class attribute works fine. it
> references a class within a separate css stylesheet linked to the file,
> and all
> is well.
>
> now i want to change some of that information with ajax, so i need to take
> the
> code from the stylesheet and put in in the page itself. so i copy the
> code, and
> use the style attribute instead of class. makes sense to me, however i'm
> obviously the only one that makes sense to... it's all jacked up, not even
> close.
>
> how do i fix this? why is it different using the exact some code?
>
> here's my code using the class attribute...
>
> css -
> .leftEdge {background:#000000 url(whatever.gif) repeat-y left top}
>
> html-
> <div class="leftEdge">
>
> ...that works fine, why doesn't this....
>
> no css stylesheet
>
> html-
> <div style="background:#000000 url(whatever.gif) repeat-y left top">
>
> i even tried to label everything, using background-repeat and
> background-position... still a no go. please
>
>
>