Try setting the background image in a frame with the background attribute of the HTML body tag: <BODY background="myImage.jpg"> Your content here </BODY> Where you change "myImage.jpg" to whatever your image is named. You can insert the animated gif through the <img> tag. hth, Maureen Luinrandir Hernson wrote: > > Sorry if this is off topic, but I really don't know who else to ask. > > Heres what I want to do.. maybe you would be so kind as to tell me what language this can best be done in. I'm just learning perl and know HTML. > > within frames (or a table)... > I would like to put a large gif in the backround and then place a smaller gif over it. > The smaller gif is where the movement or animation would happen, Like a mouth moving over a picture of a person. > > Could this be done with 2 or 3 small moving gifs at the same time? > Like a candle flame and a mouth of a person? > > If I had a picture of a forest, I'd like to have a person walk from left to right. > would this mean individual gifs or one multi-gif animation in a frame that moves over the backround? > > I have looked into Java, Javascript, CSS and DHTML and all look promising, but I have yet to find an example in a book that answers my question. > > Help? Please? > L HernsenThread Previous