Sandy wrote: [...] > http://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/test/contact.shtml > and there are a couple of divs with a transparent background > > .headerleft > #globalnav > the "search" should be transparent, too. > > instead that whole area is showing up with a white background in AOL > 9.1, ie6 and ie7. ie8 is ok. > > the styles are here > http://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/test/css/mcb2009.css >
That comes from this rule @ line 271 - .container { background-color : #fff; padding : 0; width : 860px; } Other browsers respect the 'background-color:inherit;' @ line 109 as the selector is more specific. IE 5 - 7 do not apply 'inherit'. Cordially, David -- ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/