Correct Table or TD can't be found ... HEEEELP
Hi there. Recently we changed our header/logo and backgrounds around but for some reason we cannot make our header show up as a transparent image, even though it is. The problem doesn't have anything at all to do with the graphic, just the fact that we can't find the correct table or td which controls the background where the image is located. Here's a link to a screenshot from our old header:
http://www.meineclipshow.einfachclic...header_old.jpg
To the right is the background for the whole vshare setup as controlled via css.
This particular image does *NOT* use transparency. The background is actually part of the image and we've adapted it to the existing background that we were using globally to the left and right of the page margins. Now then, here's our new header and background:
http://www.meineclipshow.einfachclic...header_new.jpg
The css was changed accordingly to show the new background image to the left and right. The logo was changed and then made transparent. The background image (see code below) is the same as what you see to the right of the page margin. Theoretically we should now be able to view the page background through our transparent logo, but that is not the case. Instead, as you can see, our standard page layout background shows through our transparent header logo. That's what we can't find.
I've spent a lot of time in this forum and with our files, but that particular table or td, the one that controls only and strictly the background where the logo appears, is nowhere to be found. It's nuts because you'd think that it's the same table/td that contains the logo image itself ... but no, that's not the case. It's driving me up a wall ....
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" BORDER="0" BACKGROUND="http://www.meineclipshow.einfachclicken.de/templates/images/bgimage.gif" width="100%">
<tr><td align="left" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" BACKGROUND="http://www.meineclipshow.einfachclicken.de/templates/images/bgimage.gif">
That's the code in the header template and directly underneath this is where our image map (which is also our transparent logo), with the planet toward the right, begins. The whitish/yellow color that you see in the image above shouldn't even be there since the logo image is indeed transparent.
Any ideas on this?
I would certainly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
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Re: Correct Table or TD can't be found ... HEEEELP
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Alright, just in case anyone's interested ....
Yes, I was able to correct this problem, and no, not by finding the right table or td either.
I have no idea why the table/td section with the logo didn't control the background color in order for me to have no color assigned at all ... which then would have/should have permitted the background outside of the page margins to show through our logo, but here's how I fixed it.
I made a screenshot of the video portal homepage in full screen mode.
Then I took that image and saved a chunk from the top in the exact same height of the table background image ... the one with the planet that should have been transparent. But I left that image in full screenshot width so that I'd be able to view the body background as well.
Then I took our actual body background image, a small gif file (apx. 140 X 140) and compared the left and right sides of the screenshot image to that. Finally I copied a specific matching section of our body background into our table background image.
My theory was that, if I did it correctly, then my new table/td background image would jive so well with the actual body background .... that nobody'd be able to tell the difference between the two.
Last step ... copying the old transparent table/td image into the new table/td background image ... TRANSPARENTLY.
Uploaded the new image, and voila, looks like seamless integration even though it's not.
Take a look for yourself: http://www.meineclipshow.einfachclicken.de/
The table with our logo (the logo is transparent too) resides in a table.
The appropriate table/td contains an image the exact size of that table/td, it's the image with the planet.
To the left of the planet is more of the same image, all the way to the left edge of our page/logo.
And that in turn conforms 100% to the existing body background that you see next to the left and right page margins. Awesome !!!
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