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Only part of a large background image is visible because the element's height is determined by the length of its contents.

  

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <title>Large background</title>
  <style type="text/css">
  div {
    background-image: url(images/bigslice.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
  }
  </style>
</head>

<body>
  
  
  <div>
  <p>this is a text.</p>
  <p>this is a text.</p>
  <p>this is a text.</p>
  <p>this is a text.</p>
  <p>this is a text.</p>
  <p>this is a text.</p>
  <p>this is a text.</p>
  <p>this is a text.</p>
  <p>this is a text.</p>

  </div>
</body>
</html>

   
  








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