Replying to both your messages: Transparent is valid for IE7 but will only work in IE6 if the file's a gif (as yours are) not a png.
In answer to your other reply, the fact remains that there was/is a white space in your code which messed up the table head rendering on my browser. Unless I've totally misunderstood, the <thead> is not in question. The <th> IS a child of <tr> and has been given a class of "header", but because of the errant white space, the browser won't apply the "header" class to the <th>. Have you actually tried my amendment? It certainly made things jump into life for me, and as I say, unless I've totally misunderstood you, it does do what you want it to do. Regards, Alan. www.theatreorgans.co.uk www.virtualtheatreorgans.com Admin: ConnArtistes, UKShopsmiths, 2nd Touch & A-P groups Shopsmith 520 + bits Flatulus Antiquitus ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Finney To: Alan K Baker Cc: css-d Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] Background in IE6 and 7 I altered the css to include th.header, but as I thought this makes no difference. Anybody have a suggestion as to why IE is forcing the background to be white when it is set to transparent? Is transparent not a valid value for IE??? TIA, Mark On 05/04/2008, Mark Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, but the .header is not for the tr... it is for the child of the tr... the white space is deliberate... Mark ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/