Background image not working in IE

[Nina77]

My background image is working properly in every browser except IE.
It doesn't show at all.

body {background:#eeede6 url(images/background.png) no-repeat;}

Can anyone help me with this?

[Paul O'B]

My background image is working properly in every browser except IE.
It doesn't show at all.

body {background:#eeede6 url(images/background.png) no-repeat;}

Can anyone help me with this?

Hi, Welcome to Sitepoint

We'd need a little more to go on that that snippet as it appears to be ok so could be something else at fault. Do you have a link to the problem concerned?

A common bug is where you don't leave a space after the closing url bracket and IE ignores the rule.

e.g.

body {background:#eeede6 url(images/background.png)no-repeat;}

However the snippet you posted does have a gap and therefore should be ok.

[Nina77]

Thank you for your response

i solved it. I just needed to save image as an 8-bit, it was 24-bit.

Thanks anyway!

[ralph.m]

I just needed to save image as an 8-bit, it was 24-bit.

Modern versions of IE should have been OK with this. Was it an IE6 issue?

[Paul O'B]

Thank you for your response

i solved it. I just needed to save image as an 8-bit, it was 24-bit.

Thanks anyway!

Unless you are talking about transparent images in IE6 then 24 bit images would be ok. Or perhaps you are not using a doctype and then all versions of IE will revert to behave much like ie5 and not understand transparency in png images (among many other bad things).

[Nina77]

Aha, thanks, i know what you're talking about, i hate IE