Problem with transparancy in background-GIF of table cell

[Erik van Duijn]

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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[Denise]

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

 

[Erik van Duijn]

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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[Weyoun the Dancing Borg]

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?