Newbie needs help!

[clankid]

I have a .gif image that I am using as the background of an absolutely positioned div element.

The trouble is- .gif automatically makes my pretty transparent background white when I save it and I need it to be transparent.

In a wysiwyg editor, often I can select the image and use a 'wand' to tell it which color to hide. Once these images are in my div class, I can no longer select it... infact, even when they are not in the div I cannot select it in my editor to get at the 'wand'....

Can anyone tell me how, with CSS, to make the white fields surrounding my images to disappear?:rolleyes:

There has got to be a simple way to do it and I have just missed something.

Any direction would be appreciated.

Amber

[DaveSW]

Is the white background on the image itself when you save it, or does the white background apply on the page when you insert it as a background?

Haven't tested this, but try

style="background: transparent url(mypic.gif) center no-repeat;"

[Da Warriah]

it sounds more like how youre saving it...you may not be selecting the "transparent" option...which image editor do you use?

[clankid]

Thanks guys!

I think Da Warriah was right-- I was not paying close enough attention to how I was saving it.

Also, it seemed to cooperate better and show correctly once I uploaded it... may just have been a limitation of my wysiwyg editor...

Ah well... always something!

Thank you again for your input.

Amber