http://myspacelayoutninja.net/ i want to put a background texture to the left and right of the content and have it going from the bottom of the header banner to the footer, and have the content background solid white. obvious answer would be to make the content background white and use the texture as the background image BUT that wont work because: the header banner is a background image (http://myspacelayoutninja.net/wp-content/themes/t9/img/bg2.jpg) because i wanted the gradient at the top and i wanted to make sure it filled the entire window without cutting off. so is there any way to add another background somehow?
I'm not sure I understand either without seeing visually. But you could set a background image to the top of whole page (the body) Which in CSS would be: body { background-image: url(blah.com/blah.jpg); background-position: top; }
Yeah, you can put your texture on the body. The background image that you have "in the header" should really be in the header. Every element, not just the body, may be given a background image. So if there's a div or something out there called #header then move the header background image to that, and now you have a place for the new image.
Multiple backgrounds are not allowed in CSS, however you need to use some tweak. Multiple Backgrounds in CSS is clear way to use it.