Background issues

[reerey]

Hi I am new to html and I have a project for school to make a web page using html codes but when I apply a picture as the background the browser displays it tiled, I want it as a single image

[gil davis]

You are limited as to what you can do in HTML:
http://www.echoecho.com/htmlbackgrounds02.htm

However, CSS has many more options:
http://www.tizag.com/cssT/background.php