td background image renders colour differently?

Hi All,

I'm creating a variable-width column header on a page using graphic
elements. To achieve the variableness of the width, I'm placing one of
the image elements as the background of a <td> tag, but I've noticed
that for some reason IE6 seems to render this image in a slightly
different colour than the rest of the image elements in the table.

Is this a known 'feature' of IE6? That images placed in the background
setting of a TD tag will render slightly different from images placed
in <IMG> tags?

Any help appreciated!

Much warmth,

Murray

M Wells wrote:

Hi All,

I'm creating a variable-width column header on a page using graphic
elements. To achieve the variableness of the width, I'm placing one of
the image elements as the background of a <td> tag, but I've noticed
that for some reason IE6 seems to render this image in a slightly
different colour than the rest of the image elements in the table.

Is this a known 'feature' of IE6? That images placed in the background
setting of a TD tag will render slightly different from images placed
in <IMG> tags?

Any help appreciated!

Much warmth,

Murray

I'm sure Mr. Korpela will have something to say on your somewhat dubios
methods, as do I, unless I have misunderstood.

Is it that you have an image, and it is supposed to *blend* into the
background-color of the page, or are you using an 'invisible' image to
make the column width right?

If you are trying #1, will a transparent GIF do it for you? Check that
the bg colour of your image really IS the same as the page. Use the
windows default calculator to change the 256 RGB values to hexidecimal
values and check all your images in Paint and your HTML background-color.

I cannot see why you need to use a table for this; unless you are trying
to support the small number of net-users with non-CSS capable browsers.

Please, some more specific info.

-Will