queenbee

i have a black background and a white table, i put an image behind the table so that you can just see the edges at the side of the table, its a small image though and i want it to go the whole height of the table but not over the top if you know what i mean,at the minute i have the image in the CSS and no matter what i do i cant seem to change the height and repeat puts it across the whole page.. please help me if you can its driveing me crazy!!
this is the css code i have: body {background-color:black; background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: center; background-image:url(background.png);>}