Image colours while downloading

pink/yellow instead of

[Purple Martin]

Hi everyone,

I'm seeing something wierd that I've never seen before. I've just uploaded a new page and when I look at it in IE5.5 (with a cleared cache) the areas where the images are gradually downloading into are coloured: one is orange-ish, another yellow, another is pink.

I'm using CSS (of course) for the body background colour (black), text clour (orange), and everything else (the client chose the colours, not me ;) ).

Here is the CSS for the BODY:

BODY {
color: #333333;
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 13px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background-color: #000000;
}

Nothing is defined for IMAGE.

Does anyone know why the image places aren't just black until the image has finished downloading?

Thanks in advance!

[rewboss]

::shrug::

Sounds pretty cool to me. :)

[moonbiter]

Are these gifs, pngs, or jpgs? What is the background color of these images? Are they progressive (if jpgs) or interlaced (if gifs or jpgs)?

[starway]

I think this can happen if you define these colors for links and use images as links.
Give us a part of the code with some images.