Transparent Images on IE

Transparent Images

[Jaec]

Hi all, what can I do for show transparent images on IE when I'm using a background image with CSS background property. I tried with png and gif formats but my image shows a gray background instead of the background defined in CSS.

Thanks a lot.

Joel

[bunltd]

Hi, Joel and welcome to WebmasterWorld.

It sounds like the image is the problem. What program are you using to create the image? It sounds like you don't have it set to make the gray background transparent. Usually in the save/export function there's a eyedropper tool or somesuch that will allow you to specify which color is transparent (gif), what/how depends on your software.

Hope this helps.

LisaB

[Jaec]

Hi Lisa,

I don't think so that is the problem. I'm using several programs like fireworks, photopaint, illustrator. I'm already defined a transparent color when I create a new document in the porgram. It works for Mozilla (gif and png) but not in IE.

Thank you very much.

Joel

[bunltd]

Hmm, what's your css look like? Maybe a snippet would help.

LisaB

[Jaec]

Hi again,

This is the link of my website:

...my css code looks like this:
//////////////////////////////////////////////
body {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color: #336699;
background-image: url(/pruebas/newlook/imgs/1.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////
... and the image that I want to be transparent is the logo in the top
it's contained in a img tag.

Mozilla FireFox shows the transparency but IE don't.

Joel

[edited by: Woz at 9:32 am (utc) on Aug. 9, 2004]
[edit reason] No URLs please, see TOS#13 [/edit]

[jusdrum]

IE doesn't support PNG transparency.

[Jaec]

Ok, thanks.

Does IE support GIF transparency?

Joel

[Alternative Future]

>>Does IE support GIF transparency?

Yeah sure does...

-George

[Farix]

IE doesn't support PNG transparency.

Actually it does. It supports binary transparency by default (just like GIF) and alpha-channel transparency with a filter.

[Jaec]

>>Actually it does. It supports binary transparency >>by default (just like GIF) and alpha-channel >>transparency with a filter.

Hi,

I have the newest version of IE and I can't be able to show a transparency with png on IE, I don't know why.

Joel

[pixelkat]

behold, an incredibly efficient IE-png transparancy work around that doesn't use javascript:

[daltonlp.com...]

[brdwlsh]

for what it's worth, IE 5.2 on Mac OS 10.2.6 supports png-24 transparency.