Has there ever been anything so hard - but then again so easy?
You would think that this would be easier -
After much research I have come to the conclusion that there is no easy way to just set a property of a WebPart Title area and set the background to use an image.
It looks like to me that Microsoft left out a Property for the title area background image.
You would think that this would be easier - I can almost bet that Microsoft has had numerous request to add it.
I resulted to using a style sheet class
<style type="text/css">
.CoolBar {
background-image :url(images/sweetBar.gif);
}
</style>
<PartTitleStyle CssClass="CoolBar" BackColor="#5D7B9D" Font-Bold="True" Font-Size="0.8em" ForeColor="White" />
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