Problem with transparancy in background-GIF of table cell
 

Hi

does anyone know what I might be doing wrong (or can confirm that I am
confonted with a short coming of the IE-browser???):

When I put in a GIF-image with transparancy as a background image of a table
cell, the page-background image does not "shine through" the transparant
parts of this GIF-image (instead, only a solid black color can be seen)

Anyone?

Erik
Holland
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Re: Problem with transparancy in background-GIF of table cell
 

"Erik van Duijn" <WIPETHISSTRINGevduijn@wish.nl> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> does anyone know what I might be doing wrong (or can confirm that I am
> confonted with a short coming of the IE-browser???):
>
> When I put in a GIF-image with transparancy as a background image of a
table
> cell, the page-background image does not "shine through" the transparant
> parts of this GIF-image (instead, only a solid black color can be seen)
>
> Anyone?
>
> Erik
> Holland
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Is the background of the table set to black? That would do it.

What graphics program are you using - are you sure that you're creating your
transparent .gifs correctly?

Denise

Re: Problem with transparancy in background-GIF of table cell
 

Hi Denise

in answer to your suggestion that I might be creating my transparant GIF's
incorrectly:

when I put the same transparant GIF in a table cell as a normal image (thus
not as a background image) and at the same time set the background of the
cell to some color (say "red"), the red color does shine through the
transparant parts of the GIF-image, IMHO proving that I did make the
transparant GIF correctly.

But when I use this same transparant GIF as a background image of the cell,
I don't see the page background color (as one would expect)

Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance
Erik
Holland

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"Denise" <encks@verizon.net> schreef in bericht
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> "Erik van Duijn" <WIPETHISSTRINGevduijn@wish.nl> wrote in message
> news:40144318$0$41760$5fc3050@dreader2.news.tiscal i.nl...
> > Hi
> >
> > does anyone know what I might be doing wrong (or can confirm that I am
> > confonted with a short coming of the IE-browser???):
> >
> > When I put in a GIF-image with transparancy as a background image of a
> table
> > cell, the page-background image does not "shine through" the transparant
> > parts of this GIF-image (instead, only a solid black color can be seen)
> >
> > Anyone?
> >
> > Erik
> > Holland
> > --
>
> Is the background of the table set to black? That would do it.
>
> What graphics program are you using - are you sure that you're creating
your
> transparent .gifs correctly?
>
> Denise
>
>

Re: Problem with transparancy in background-GIF of table cell
 

"Erik van Duijn" <WIPETHISSTRINGevduijn@wish.nl> wrote in message
news:40154860$0$41759$5fc3050@dreader2.news.tiscal i.nl...
> Hi Denise
>
> in answer to your suggestion that I might be creating my transparant GIF's
> incorrectly:
>
> when I put the same transparant GIF in a table cell as a normal image
(thus
> not as a background image) and at the same time set the background of the
> cell to some color (say "red"), the red color does shine through the
> transparant parts of the GIF-image, IMHO proving that I did make the
> transparant GIF correctly.
>
> But when I use this same transparant GIF as a background image of the
cell,
> I don't see the page background color (as one would expect)
>
> Any suggestion?

Individual cell backgrounds aren't always supported by all browsers and in
this case it seems your browser will show a gif, just not a transparent one
for some reason. Do you have a link to the website?