Background image leaves gaps?

Very odd... in IE 5 Mac

[mivox]

I have a page, regular boring HTML, with a 128 pixel square background image.

It is presented in an iframe.

In IE 5/Mac, the background image shows as rowsof texture with gaps between each row. so what should be a seamless background texture is instead a series of wide, horizontal stripes.

I haven't the foggiest idea why this might happen. The background gif is declared in the body tag as background="image.gif" and is stored in the same directory as the html page in question...

Any ideas? It doesn't show the "gaps" in NN 4.7/Mac...

[mivox]

The gaps also occur when the HTML page is loaded by itself... so it's not an iframe problem.

I'm baffled, and it looks crummy too. :(

I have other pages on the same site, with different background patterns, that are presented in an identical iframe, with no gaps showing...

[idiotgirl]

Have you tried changing to a different background texture to see if it has the same effect? (Just another image to test it.) One time that happened to me and I realized the background image itself was flawed. I resaved the same texture, renamed, recropped - and it worked. I didn't figure it out until I tried a different image and the problem disappeared.

[mivox]

Well, I just looked at the page from the office, and there are no gaps... But BOTH my computers at home show them... urgh.

I'll check again when I get home, and if I still see them, I'll try resaving the gif.