Background issue

Hi guys, I have an issue with the background color of my site. My site has an I frame with a transparent background. In safari and Firefox it works great, but in Explorer and Opera it turns white. I assume those browsers just don’t recognize the transparent default property of a blank html page that Firefox and safari do. It looks pretty dreadful as white and I would like to at least turn it black.

Does anyone know how to perhaps assign the Background a transparent property or at least a black property for Explorer?

My site is Lionheart Concrete

Hi LionelLionheart. Welcome to SitePoint. :slight_smile:

Your page looks the same in Firefox and Opera to me, so I’m not quite sure what you are referring to. I also don’t see an iframe in there.

It’s better not to place a site over the top of an image and try to align with it. Ieally, have each aspect of the image—like the darker gray box—as a separate background on its won section. Maybe post a screen shot of what you are seeing, and identify which IE you are talking about, as there are 4 of them in common use, all very different.

My apologies for lack of clarity. I don’t know a lot of the proper terms. perhaps this screen shot will help to clarify.

The IFRAME is the one with the vulgar ID value Ralph and that the garden picture though it’s a JPG and there’s nothing in the CSS to suggest opacity.

Ah, I see the iframe. Iframes are quite outdated, really, so I wouldn’t be using it. Anyhow, to be honest, I’m still completely in the dark as to what the issue is. What’s shown in yur screen shot is what I see in my browser. Perhaps take a screen shot from a browser where you are seeing a problem.

Ah that’s a good Idea Ralph, Here it is in Opera.

Hm, quite weird, but Opera can be weird sometimes. It looks like you are using a very old version of Opera, though. Attached is what I see in the current version for Mac.

Well that’s good news, It must just be a problem with out dated versions. Thanks for your help in getting to the bottom of it.

Like Ralph, I’m not getting the problem you describe (using Opera 11 on WinXP).