Need a little technical advice
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You might have noticed that I changed the default text header to a graphic image. Looks great in Firefox on a flatscreen monitor. But in IE6, I see a purple box around the image representing the link to the homepage. I’ve changed the CSS to show the link as black, so it’s still there but it should just blend with the rest of the header. It works in FF, but I can’t get IE6 to take this change. Is there something I need to do the CSS to make this change propogate across multiple browsers?
Anyone checking it in IE7? What about Opera?
And yeah, I like it way better against a white background, so I might make some additional CSS changes, but I want to troubleshoot one issue at a time. Unless someone has a better suggestion?
Update:
I have no idea why there was a difference between IE6 and FF, but I solved it by adding ‘ border="0" ‘ to the img src code. Now, if you’re lookinh at this post in IE6, you’ll see that the image in this post has a light blue background - I have no idea why, because the background should be transparent and it shows up perfect (jn fact, it the image freaking POPS off the screen) in FF. What would web development be without these challenges, eh?
I really should pay for a designer, especially since I make enough from these sites to warrant it. But, I’m a curious guy, I HAVE TO know how to do it myself.
Update #2:
Again, this is for IE users - the image directly above, with no apparent background, is a .jpg. The image above that, with the light blue background is a .png. Both images, in fact, have transparent backgrounds. The .png looks much sharper to the naked eye, so I wonder if I just add a white background to the .png, does that solve the problem? Let’s see…
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Yep, that seems to have done the trick - .png with a white background.
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I do see the purple box in IE, not in Firefox - did ya know I now have that too, at your suggestion.