Allison Kelly wrote:

> background: transparent url(test_07_082205_files/nav.jpg) 0 0 
> no-repeat;}
> 
> I decided to do it the way you did it, in the cover-up way, as 
> opposed to text-indent or the others. But in my perusing, I didn't 
> see the "transparent" anywhere. What does that do specifically?

It sets 'background-color' to "transparent" - no background color. Of
course: that is the default, but I usually declare it when using the
shorthand property 'background'. It's a "personal preference" thing.

It is especially important to have a "transparent" background when that
type of image-replacement is used. The background-color will otherwise
cover the text, and make the entire image-replacement useless if/when
images are not supported but CSS is.

> Also, I had used background-image: url("images/bgscreen.gif");  to 
> set the background in my nav div, but the background-image: wouldn't 
> work with the cover-up, I finally figured out I had to take the 
> "-image" out. Maybe this is something normal that more experienced 
> CSS-ers know, so please share the wealth!

Have to see the actual case to be sure what happened, but seen isolated
the 'background-image' property should work.
See:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/colors.html#background>
...for details.

regards
        Georg
-- 
http://www.gunlaug.no
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