[thelist] IE & N6 - box models, background colours and images

[Fraser Crichton]

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Cheers,

setting background-color on the image was the trick.

Ta,

Fraser
-----Original Message-----
From: aardvark [mailto:roselli at earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:06 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] IE & N6 - box models, background colours and
images


> From: Fraser Crichton <fraser.crichton at infinity.co.nz>
>
> In version 6 browsers background colours set on headings and block
> level elements display behind images e.g. This CSS definition: h1
> {background-color: #ff0000; } and this html
>
> <img height="72" alt="" src="/images/blah.jpg" width="200"
> align="right" /> <h1>heading</h1>
>
> would give you and image on the right with a red band appearing behind
> it.

even though it's not within the <h1>?

> Can anyone think of a way of turning off this behaviour so that band
> only extends to the side of the image and not behind it??

give the img tag a background color of something else... is this to address
transparent images?  or something else?

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