On macs only, a black background shows up...why?

Black background problem

[Lvanhoff]

Hello,

I designed a site on a mac using dreamweaver. When viewed in Safari or Firefox on a mac, this awful black background shows up as the page loads over it. I can't for the life of me see why. And I've never had this happen before. Must be something very obvious but I sure am not seeing why it's doing this. When previewed on a pc in Explorer and Firefox it does not seem to happen.

If anyone can pleeeeeeeese tell me what is making this happen I'd sure appreciate it!

Thanks in advance.

Laura

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[edited by: tedster at 6:14 am (utc) on Jan. 23, 2006]

[BlobFisk]

Is your page background an image? Have you specified a background colour?

[Lvanhoff]

Sorry, I should have specified that. There is no background color chosen. There is a background image which repeats. It is *over* this background image where the black fills in as the image in the main large table loads which is a background image for the main table. Yes, I know, I still design in tables :-) So there is background small image which repeats, then a table that sits on that, with other tables within it. It's not the whole page that goes black, just the background of the table where the image is a background image for that main table.

I did a search in the code for #000000 and nothing comes up. So it's not specified as black anywhere.

Arrrgh.

[Lorel]

Do you by any chance have a slow computer or slow ISP? sometimes that causes it.

You might also try loading the background via CSS and it sounds like you might have nested tables which could also be causing problems.

[rocknbil]

Lvanhoff does your code validate? Visit the validators at wc3.org and see. The slightest code error can throw everything off sometimes.

Secondly I can testify that some things that are fine by themselves will often create monstrous problems when combined in a Mac browser - an example is tables nested too deeply in combination with some CSS specifications (would not cause this though.) Once you discover what the problem is, it's pretty easy to come up with a workaround that works for all.

The simplest way to approach this is to save a copy of the page, strip the copy down to it's basic and begin re-adding elements until the abberation re-appears.

[Lvanhoff]

Ok, I'll give that a try. Thanks.

It only happens on a mac in Safari from what I can see. There is no css on the page, only nested tables.

Thanks.