Border backgrounds provide a strip of color or image, and are usually seen on the left or right side of a page. A simple color strip may be created with HTML in a table layout, by specifying the background color of a table cell or cells. Border backgrounds may also utilize images. When text or other images are placed over border backgrounds, they must be tablized or indented so that the text or images align properly with the background images. This process is dependent upon whether the designer desires text to be placed over the background image or not.
Tiled backgrounds use a single image square which is auto-replicated by the browser.